Africa
World AC Market – 2021 Update -- AFRICA
Continued from January Special Issue The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted in June that the economy of sub-Saharan Africa was expected to shrink by 3.2% in 2020. The two major economies i...
The challenge of the COVID-19 vaccines cold chain in Africa
2021/02/23 A large proportion of African countries do not have the necessary infrastructure for the storage of vaccines at low temperatures. Solar cooling can be a solution in rural areas. T...
AUC-IEA Ministerial Forum: Securing Africa’s Energy Future i
November 24rd, 2020 A revitalised energy sector is essential to Africa’s economic transformation. The AUC-IEA Ministerial Forum on Powering Africa's Energy Future will bring together a diverse mix of high-level stakeholders from government, industry and other international organizations to discuss implementation priority actions to ensure Africa’s energy sector is best positioned ...
The Covid-19 crisis is reversing progress on energy access i
20 November 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has been dismantling steady progress made in recent years to increase access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy – an objective enshrined in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7). Sub-Saharan Africa – home to three-quarters of the almost 800 million people around the world who don’t have access to electricity &nda...
Japanese technology to fight COVID-19 in Africa and Asia
TOKYO, 11 November 2020 – Japanese technology and products will help countries in Africa and Asia limit the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the United Nations Industrial Development O...
Negative impacts of the illegal timber trade between Cameroo
November 10, 2020 WASHINGTON-D.C. - Following a three year investigation in Cameroon and Vietnam, the Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released today Tainted Timber, Tarnished Temples, a report showing how several Vietnamese companies operating in Cameroon are at the heart of a booming illegal timber trade between ...
A new African Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling a
November 5, 2020 A new African Centre of Excellence for sustainable cooling and cold chain (ACES) based in Rwanda, will help African farmers get their produce to market quickly and efficiently, thus ...
Alfa Laval wins SEK 75 million natural gas order in Algeria
October 09, 2020 Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply Alfa Laval OLMI heat exchangers to a gas compression plant in Algeria. The order has a value of approximately SEK 75 million and was booked late September in the Welded Heat Exchangers unit of the Energy Division. Delivery is scheduled for 2021. ...
North Africa’s pathways to clean energy transitions
6 October 2020 The five countries in the North Africa region1 have varying socio-economic and energy circumstances, but both energy importers and large net exporters of oil and gas are aligned on the imperative of transitions, and several countries are at the forefront of the continent’s energy transformation. On September 21st, the International Energy Agency launched the Clean En...
U-3ARC Makes History: on 24th September 2020, the first ever
October 5, 2020 Save the Date: on 24th September 2020, a new fundamental chapter was written in the history of refrigeration, when the first ever General Assembly of the newly founded Pan-African Uni...
Maersk launches its cold store in South Africa
29 September 2020 To further increase its capabilities in serving the perishable industry in South Africa, Maersk is launching its coldstore in Hammarsdale, specifically designed for this customer se...
Clean Energy Transitions in North Africa
Sep 21th, 2020 Africa’s energy future matters to the world. That is why the International Energy Agency (IEA) is substantially expanding its engagement with African regional partners and in Afr...
