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 On Monday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, addressed stakeholders at a textile exhibition in Nairobi informing them of his strategy to redesign certain policies to make Kenya an attractive region for investment, Standard Digital reported.   ‘We want to be among the first movers i . . .

  The World Bank Group's 'Lighting Africa' initiative has funded an innovative library of solar lights, benefiting 55,000 rural Senegalese. The Light Library is stocked with 4,798 solar lanterns, which are available for use by 6,115 students and their families.   The project has sever . . .

 In Rwanda, one of the most densely populated of the least-developed countries in Africa, 45 percent of the population lives in poverty and communities face acute electricity shortages. Here, every watt of electricity counts.   In 2009, only 6 percent of Rwanda’s population had acc . . .

ATM Solutions claims to be the first to have developed solar powered ATM’s installed across Mpumalanga, South Africa, Business Tech reported. With the looming power crisis in South Africa, the design was to provide solutions for bank customers needing to use an ATM during a power cut. The AT . . .

The Rwamagana District welcomed minstrels and local authorities for the official launch of the ‘Prepaid Energy’ project, The New Times reported. The project was implemented to provide many households in the Eastern Province with sufficient and reliable power. The initiative was funded . . .