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For clean energy, financial growth, Africa looks to UN talks

Solar panels sit near a street in the Obalende neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria. [AP]

In Kenya's semi-arid Makueni County, 50-year-old Purity Kinyili used to spend most of her time traveling for water and firewood to sustain her family and farmland.

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