Africa has vast untapped sources of hydroelectricity but climate change, particularly droughts, raises questions about sustainability. Hydroelectricity has an attractive appeal for Africa. It can provide a baseload – a reliable source of electricity – not easily attainable from other clean energy sources, and it also allows grid stabilisation to integrate more green power. Only about 11% of the continent’s hydropower potential has been tapped but regional plans to more than double hydro production by 2030 exist. Yet, future weather changes such as droughts put power generation at risk. Ambitions for universal access to power by 2025 mean connecting 200…
Munyaradzi Makoni
SDG 4: Education Quality education in Africa looks like a hopeless case, but it’s a matter of taking the right steps By Munyaradzi Makoni Africa has high levels of inequality, between regions and within nations. Its countries also have different levels of development and different capacities to exploit their resources. These disparities can make it challenging to evaluate the continent against the economic and social yardsticks applied to developed countries. Today, four years after the UN approved its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, some African countries are inspiring hope, while others are generating little more than hopelessness. However,…
