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World Bank awards money for African power projects
Malaysia Sun
Sunday 11th May, 2008
The World Bank Group has awarded millions of dollars to 16 African organisations for innovative lighting projects.
The winners, who got a maximum award of US$200,000, are expected to use the sums to implement their projects in several African countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
The competition, aimed at selecting affordable, clean and safe lighting for African regions, with no access to an electricity power grid, surprised many with extraordinary innovation and creativity.
The competition took place during Lighting Africa 2008, the first global business conference for off-grid lighting throughout the continent.
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| By Anonymous, 05-11-08, 07:26 PM |
World Bank awards money for African power projectsPlease, please, please somebody, Greenpeace, Oxfam, convince Zimbabwe to invest whatever scant resources they might muster for a runoff election, with the only result being to fan the animosity between Tsvangerai and Mugabe and their loyalists, in a process to engage in an “energy-sharing” partnership, aside from political dispute and armed conflict, and to establish a model energy transformation project in that country...to “revolutionize” the agricultural, craft, and infrastructure framework of Zimbabwe.
The crippling inflation and resultant instability in Zimbabwe is a result of oppressive World Bank and Commonwealth policies against Mugabe’s leadership, and a press-war against the racial disparities, of power, property, and media sympathy in that nation.
Is there any means to bring about a peaceful resolution to the dilemma of a rich nation, impoverished and fractured by a history of oppression, yet on the brink of change, and in enough of a world spotlight to demonstrate that there is a potential for life-affirming discourse?
Hey, World Bank! Lets get a fraction of the salaries paid to Wolfowitz and his girlfriend and give it to a seed-fund to transform Zimbabwe: suspend the onerous debts and restrictions, and demonstrate that with a small investment of resources, the human spirit can transcend a sense of lack, and power can combine as well as compete. Zimbabwe’s “Z” can become the “A” of a new earth-saving, innovative, energy-sparing civilization. |
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