Kenya

IEA: Access to energy improving worldwide, driven by renewables

IEA Energy Snapshot December 19, 2024

Having a reliable electricity supply is something many of us take for granted – including for sending and reading emails like this one. But hundreds of millions of people around the world today don’t have access to electricity.

The hurricane season in 2024 was weird

bne IntelliNews December 2, 2024

The Atlantic hurricane season of 2024 was a weird one. It both produced more, and more destructive, hurricanes than usual, but at the same time it had a calm hole in the middle where there should have been at least four hurricanes.

Kenya’s untapped mineral wealth holds the promise of economic transformation

Jason Mitchell November 22, 2024

The Kenyan government aims to raise the mining industry's share of GDP from less than 1% to 10% by 2030, harnessing vast resources of gold, rare earth elements, titanium, and soda ash.

Russia’s Rosatom to support nuclear projects across Africa at AEW2024

Elena Kachkova in Johannesburg October 16, 2024

Rosatom, now building Egypt's first nuclear power plant, has announced a strong pipeline of projects across Africa, having signed agreements with Burkina Faso, Congo and Guinea while making inroads in Kenya and beyond.

Global warming will increase crop yields in Global North, but reduce them in Global South

bne IntelliNews October 14, 2024

Global warming will increase crop yields in the Global North, largely thanks to increased “carbon fertilisation” and temperature increases towards the optimal for growing crops, but will decrease it in the Global South.

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