East Africa’s mining and energy sectors offer lucrative investment opportunities

Gold prospectors work at an open-pit mine in Kogelo village, Siaya County, mid this month. Capital investments in the mining and energy sectors are crucial in creating an extractive industry with high returns. [REUTERS]

 

East Africa is endowed with some of the World’s largest extractable energy reserves. It is hard to imagine that two out of every three people in the sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity. Indeed, 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity.