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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It is often better to fly in lifesaving supplies instead of loading trucks with supplies to bring them along roads that might not be passable anymore,” Fregene says. As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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