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International Business Times
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Marietou BA

Ivory Coast Bets On Solar In Clean Energy Drive

Solar panels in the northern town of Boundiali in Ivory Coast stretch across 36 hectares (89 acres) (Credit: AFP)

The sun beats down from a cloudless sky on the town of Boundiali, where Ivory Coast's first solar power plant embodies the drive to embrace clean energy without abandoning fossil fuels.

Unlike the wetter, cloudier south, the climate in northern Ivory Coast bordering Burkina Faso and Mali is hot and dry for around eight months of the year.

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