April 25, 2024

Electricity outages delay SDGs in sub-Saharan Africa

With less than seven years to attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sub-Saharan Africa is falling seriously behind where it should be, mainly because of poor electricity access and longer, increasingly frequent outages. Surprisingly, a stable power supply is not specified in the goal to ensure access to clean and affordable energy (SDG 7), but it affects almost all the goals.

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