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COMMENTARY
Major economies still reliant on coal 4
POLICY
Mauritania tasks Meen/EPCM consortium with
developing gas master plan 6
COAL-FIRED GENERATION
Kibo Energy moves close to PPA with Mozambique’s EDM 7
GAS -FIRED GENERATION
Senegal secures funding, support for gas pipeline plan 8
HYDRO
Egypt, Sudan reject Ethiopian GERD data sharing offer 9
NUCLEAR
Zimbabwe brings in Russia to develop nuclear energy 10
RENEWABLES
Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund supports
30-MW solar plant in Burkina Faso 11
RENEWABLES
KenGen completes drilling at Ethiopia’s
Tulu Moye geothermal project 12
NEWS IN BRIEF 13
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