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How Africa's grid is being rewired for factories over poor households

Some of the beneficiaries of the commissioned electrification project at Sirandu Village in Gem constituency by Energy and Petroleum CS Opiyo Wandayi on February 24, 2025. [Isaiah Gwenji, Standard]

African energy ministers are quietly rewriting the rules of the power market.

In public, they talk about “universal access.” Behind closed doors, they talk about who can actually pay.

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