Lobbies want Africa to slow down on coal, oil investments

A general view shows an oil rig used in drilling at the Ngamia-1 well on Block 10BB, in the Lokichar basin, which is part of the East African Rift System in Turkana County, on April 5, 2012. [Reuters]

Civil society organisations are pushing African governments to adopt strategies that will see the region increasingly adopt clean energy while phasing out fossil fuels.