Solar mini-grids offer clean-power hope to rural Africa

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 02, 2023 1:01 pm

SABON GIDA, Nigeria: Working as a nurse in her rural Nigerian village, Andat Datau faced more than her share of challenges. But delivering babies by torchlight was always hard.

Off-grid for years, her Sabon Gida village relied on diesel generators or lamps and, like millions of other Africans, Datau often got no light at all.

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