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4 ways Power Africa can better achieve its energy access goal
4 ways Power Africa can better achieve its energy access goal

More than two-thirds of the population in sub-Saharan Africa lacks electricity, with that figure growing to more than 85 percent in rural areas. In an attempt to address this dearth of energy access, President Obama initiated Power Africa in 2013. The interagency initiative has the goals of increasing access to electricity by adding 60 million electricity connections…