Monday, 08 December 2008

Powering Africa's future

Africa is a continent of darkness and is desperately in need of power.
Only one in three of Africa's 700 million people have electricity - and in the countryside only one in ten has light at the flick of a switch.
Namibia is essentially a desert country and it relies on South Africa for almost half its electricity.
However, it does have plenty of uranium and the government is already quietly getting on with a nuclear programme.
"We are going for nuclear power, there is no question about it, but what we are going to do - I am not prepared to talk about it because we haven't even got legislation in place yet," said Joseph Iiata, the permanent secretary in Namibia's ministry of minerals and energy.
"Why should we sleep in darkness if we have been given resources like uranium," he added.

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