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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. Cities are expanding, economies are growing, and life expectancy has almost doubled. Africa is part of a global toll taken by air pollution, which killed an estimated 6.7

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

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Knowing how many solar panels are on a roof informs us about the maximum possible rate of local generation but not about the annual capacity factor or about the final uses of generated electricity. All too obviously, real access to electricity in large parts of Africa is akin to where the United States was during the late 1890s.