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COMMENTARY
Debt and losses continue to hold back Nigeria’s power sector 4 Fuel price cuts in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Tanzania 6
COMPANY NEWS
Fitch downgrades Siemens Gamesa 8
HYDRO
Sudan rejects Ethiopia’s latest GERD proposals 9
GRID
AfDB to probe Kenya’s Last Mile Connectivity Project 10
INDUSTRY
Egypt’s SIDPEC to move forward with $1.2bn polymer project 10
RENEWABLES
AfDB, Clean Technology Fund lend $10mn
tokick-start Ethiopian geothermal IPP 11
NEWS IN BRIEF 12
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