Women increasingly appear in Africa's energy policies, but major gaps remain in workforce, finance, and outcome measurement. ETA examines the latest data.
Sub-Saharan Africa is now home to 563 million of the world's 655 million people without electricity, and the gap is becoming more concentrated. ETA Analysis examines what the 2026 SDG7 Energy Progress Report reveals about Africa's energy access challenge, and why current progress is still off track.
One billion Africans cook on open fires, and 815,000 die from the smoke each year. The fix is cheap, but the energy transition still ignores it.
When Grace, a 47-year-old mother of four in Uganda’s Kasese district, spoke at a local town hall meeting, her voice trembled. But what she said cut through: "We see cables and poles, but not power in...