West Africa Teams Up to Boost Power Production

The African Development Bank said Africa’s power supply has worsened into a crisis. The bank said only one African in five has access to electricity, and that if the trend continues, fewer than 40 percent of African countries will reach universal access to electricity by 2050. In 1999, the West African Power Pool was created to provide electricity to the sub-region at competitive and affordable prices. In 2012, four members of the power pool - Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea...

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