Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit
Source: DTE
- The Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania aiming to accelerate energy access across Africa.
- Africa Energy Summit hosted by the Government of Tanzania, African Union, African Development Bank, and the World Bank.
- The summit focuses on the Mission 300 initiative, which aims to provide electricity access to 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.
- Over 600 million Africans lack reliable electricity access, with Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa home to 80% of the global population without electricity.
- At the summit, the National Energy Compacts were presented by 12 African countries, which include Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia.
- The government-led National Energy Compacts will serve as roadmaps to achieve universal electricity access and clean cooking by 2030, aligning with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) for affordable, reliable, sustainable energy access for all by 2030.
Read more: Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2023
