Thirty African Heads of State and governments today committed to concrete reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to power economic growth, improve ...

African heads of state, business leaders, and development partners will converge tomorrow in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the ...

Ethiopia has made significant progress in energy access in recent years; however, despite a 94% electrification rate in urban ...

Developing economies—which fuel 60 percent of global growth—are projected to finish the first quarter of the 21st century ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

Follow the journey of Terna and Aisha, two inspiring students whose lives have been profoundly impacted as they received hands-on training in renewable energy solutions. Discover how they plan to ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with partners, have launched an ambitious mission to connect 300 million people to electricity in Sub-Saharan ...

Water is life. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has the world's lowest regional average annual water availability per person. Policies must be enacted to conserve water as populations ...

Global growth is expected to hold steady at 2.7 percent in 2025-26. However, the global economy appears to be settling at a low growth rate that will be insufficient to foster sustained economic ...

From the bustling medical center of Batchenga to the ambitious hydropower project of Nachtigal, Cameroon is joining the Mission 300 movement, which aims to connect 300 million Africans to electricity ...

Djibouti is vital to the Horn of Africa, where its port handles 95% of Ethopian imports and its submarine cables connect Africa to the world. But climate change poses a major threat as rising sea ...

With a national electricity access rate of 84%, Senegal is making progress towards universal energy access, yet more than 30 % of rural communities remain disconnected from the grid. As part of the ...