‘The world is cutting foreign aid – but there is a better way to tackle the climate crisis’

In 2023, some $52 million (£38 million) was invested in a groundbreaking solar power plant in Sierra Leone, which is set to increase the West African country’s electricity supply by 30 per cent. In a separate project, a power utility called Weza Power was set up in the East African nation of Burundi, which aims to bring grid power to 70 per cent of the country’s population, up from a current rate of 12 per cent.

Some £21.8m was also spent building warehouses across Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, giving 200,000 small-scale farmers access to storage solutions that will help them bring their crops to market.