Most of Kenya was cut off from electricity on Friday following major grid failures, grid operator and the energy ministry said. The outage was blamed on two trips at a transmission line and on the Ethiopia-Kenya high voltage transmission line, Energy Minister Opiyo Wandayi said in a statement. “The loss of 488MW, accounting for 27.3% […]
Morocco is heading into 2025 with renewed economic confidence, buoyed by a strong rebound in its agricultural sector, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said. The country is projected to achieve a growth rate of 3.8% in both 2025 and 2026, OECD said in a recent report, noting that this sustained momentum is […]
Morocco’s port authority is going green. It seeks to set up five photovoltaic solar plants in the ports of Casablanca, Agadir, Jorf lasfar, Laayoune, and Boujdour. The solar plants would power the ports to reduce the carbon footprint, as part of a larger national plan that would increase the share of renewables in the electricity […]
