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            <description><![CDATA[Industrial Gas Users Association-South Africa (IGUA-SA) executive officer Jaco Human is warning that the country is already stepping off a “gas cliff” – precipitated by waning supply from Mozambique’s Pande and Temane fields later this decade and exacerbated by delays in implementing the policy and infrastructure measures needed to facilitate alternative sources of supply by the mid-2030s. During a discussion this week on the natural gas landscape in South Africa, hosted by the African Energy Leadership Centre and IGUA-SA, Human argued that this was largely a result of inaction, a lack of coordination and a lack of engagement between the State and the private sector.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Energy Council of South Africa, a public-private partnership at CEO level, has announced the opening of nominations for the country’s inaugural National Energy Awards, which are endorsed by the Department of Electricity and Energy (DEE). The purpose of the awards is to highlight and celebrate beneficial impact and rapid progress across the national electricity sector.   “The positive change and delivery happening across our energy sector is generally not visible to most South Africans and yet the energy transition is one of the most fundamental and rapidly evolving local and global themes,” explained Energy Council CEO James Mackay. “These awards not only celebrate our own Mzansi success but will also start to showcase our positive progress against international standards and peers.”]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <title>South Africa is sleepwalking toward a gas crisis, businesses warn</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s government has resolved the country’s recurring power outages and is racing to fix its crumbling water infrastructure. But, business leaders warn, it’s sleepwalking into another crisis — a “gas cliff.” Combined, glassmakers, tile manufacturers, food processors and other industries that rely on gas account for 8% of the economy and 700 billion rand ($43 billion) in annual economic output, and provide 75 000 jobs. Almost all of their needs are currently supplied by Sasol, the country’s biggest petrochemicals company, from its fields in central Mozambique.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <title>Eskom RT&amp;D Centre positioned as engine for energy innovation, industrialisation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[State-owned power utility Eskom’s Research, Testing and Development (RT&D) Centre, in Rosherville, Johannesburg, is being positioned as a critical national asset for developing technologies that can support South Africa’s energy transition, strengthen energy security and contribute to broader industrialisation. During a high-level engagement held on September 2, Eskom CEO Dan Marokane, RT&D GM Prudence Madiba and Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa highlighted the growing importance of translating the utility’s energy sustainability research into practical technologies that can be deployed across the electricity sector and wider economy.]]></description>
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            <title>LNG technology improves energy access in Nigeria</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To strengthen energy access and security in northern Nigeria, US government agency, the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) is supporting the deployment of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology. On July 7, 2026, the USTDA announced an agreement with Nigerian energy company Powergas Nigeria to fund a feasibility study for a small-scale LNG plant that will deliver a reliable energy source to northern Nigeria’s industrial sector and remote communities, positioning US companies to supply “cutting-edge LNG infrastructure”.]]></description>
            <author>Lynne Davies</author>
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            <title>Kinetiko subsidiary secures A$1.26m for Phase 1 gas production cluster in South Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ASX-listed gas exploration company Kinetiko Energy's South African subsidiary Afro Energy has signed a A$1.26-million cooperation and settlement agreement with renewable energy company Mulilo Newcastle Wind Power (MNWP). This agreement grants MNWP an exclusive use arrangement over a defined exclusion zone, and resolves overlapping land-use with the proposed Newcastle wind energy facility. This provides certainty for Kinetiko’s exploration programme to continue up to the boundaries of the defined zones.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Conflating power and gas cliffs will lead to sub-optimal outcomes, energy specialist warns</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s response to the gas-supply cliff, which will arise as supply to industrial users from Mozambique falls away later this decade, should be treated separately from the country’s moves to shore-up electricity supply as coal stations are decommissioned, because conflating the two will result in sub-optimal outcomes. This argument, which runs counter to the prevailing policy response, is being advanced by Naimon Capital executive director Roland Tatnall, who has 25 years of experience across the energy value chain, including as Exxaro’s one-time energy MD, as well as as an investor and adviser.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>Committee on electricity hears views on the Gas Bill</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Portfolio Committee on Electricity and Energy has begun public hearings on the Gas Bill. In a media release, the committee says stakeholders who made submissions supported the Bill and proposed amendments to strengthen regulatory certainty, promote competition, improve oversight and prepare the gas sector for future energy developments.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Nigeria's EV ambitions run into reality of weak electricity supply</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nigeria approved tax waivers for nearly 4 000 electric vehicles (EVs) in the first half of this year, government data showed, as authorities push to accelerate nascent EV adoption despite chronic electricity shortages. The approvals reviewed by Reuters are the first under a new government programme aimed at promoting cleaner transport through tax incentives and local assembly programmes.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Domestic food producer signs contract for LNG from Virginia project, ASPI says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nasdaq- and JSE-listed advanced materials company ASP Isotopes (ASPI) says oil and gas producer Tetra4 has entered into a contract for the sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be produced at the Virginia gas project in the Free State. The LNG sale and purchase agreement is a five-year, take-or-pay contract with a South African food processor, and this offtake represents about 10% of the project's Phase 1 nameplate capacity.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>South Africa makes case in Beijing for Chinese investment in energy</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is attending the South Africa-China Electricity & Energy Investment Conference, in Beijing, this week, where he has advocated for strategic partnerships and investment to secure South Africa's energy future, with opportunities underpinned by the Integrated Resources Plan (IRP) 2025. He acclaimed that the IRP, approved late last year, articulated in the most comprehensive way, the various energy sources being pursued in South Africa, dealt with issues around emissions and sustainability and outlined the costs associated with each source.]]></description>
            <author>Tasneem Bulbulia</author>
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            <title>What the age of electricity could mean for South Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses what is driving the so-called age of electricity and what this could mean for South Africa and the country's energy policy.]]></description>
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            <title>ZET says ExxonMobil agreement further strengthens LNG terminal’s commercial foundation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Zululand Energy Terminal (ZET), which is aiming to build South Africa’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at the Port of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal, has signed heads of agreement with an ExxonMobil affiliate – a move that it says signals international market interest in supplying LNG to the country. It is the second heads of agreement signed by ZET this month, with the first signed on June 5 with Eskom.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>South Africa must not miss gas-to-power opportunity – Marokane</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa is closer than ever to getting gas-to-power projects off the ground, Eskom CEO Dan Marokane said on Tuesday, arguing that the country has a unique opportunity to use gas to strengthen energy security, support industrial growth and accelerate the expansion of renewable energy. Speaking at the Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town, he said a combination of policy alignment, infrastructure planning and growing recognition of gas's role in modern electricity systems had created conditions that were more favourable than in previous attempts to establish a gas-to-power industry.]]></description>
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            <title>Ramokgopa urges Africa to turn cross-border power plans into bankable projects</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has called for Africa to accelerate the implementation of cross-border electricity infrastructure by converting continental energy plans into bankable projects capable of attracting large-scale investment. Addressing the opening of the Africa Energy Forum (AEF) in Cape Town on Tuesday, Ramokgopa said the continent needed to accelerate implementation of the African 10-Year Infrastructure Investment Plan for cross-border interconnectivity, which is being advanced under South Africa's G20 presidency.]]></description>
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            <title>Ramokgopa to seek Cabinet approval soon to extend tariff discounts to more industries</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has indicated that he intends approaching Cabinet in the coming weeks to seek approval to extend concessional electricity tariffs similar to those that have already been approved for two ferrochrome producers to other electricity-intensive industries. In addition, he told delegates to a Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) conference on June 11 that lower tariffs could also be made available to less electricity-intensive sectors such as steel; a sector which he described as strategic and where electricity costs had been flagged as one of the reasons for recent production closures.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) has released a new Industrial Development Strategy (IDS) “anchored” by the so-called ‘3Ds’ of decarbonisation, diversification and digitalisation, but which also includes actions geared towards stemming the ongoing tide of deindustrialisation in traditional sectors. The 44-page strategy was published on the department’s website on June 8, following its approval by Cabinet on June 3.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eskom has signed heads of agreement with Zululand Energy Terminal (ZET) with the intention of becoming the ‘foundation customer’ for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that ZET intends building at Berth 207 in the South Dunes precinct of the Port of Richards Bay. ZET is a joint venture between Vopak Terminal Durban and Transnet Pipelines, and was selected in 2024 as the preferred bidder to develop, construct and operate a new LNG terminal at the KwaZulu-Natal deepwater port. Vopak Terminal Durban is owned by Royal Vopak, of the Netherlands and the Reatile Group.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa is poised to delay the retirement of about a fifth of its coal-fired electricity-generation capacity as gas projects earmarked to replace them remain behind schedule, contrasting a decline in use of the dirtiest fossil fuel in other developing nations. Africa’s largest economy, which relies on coal to generate about 80% of its electricity, had planned to shut 8 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity by 2030 according to its Integrated Resource Plan 2025, but the new capacity planned to take its place — 6 gigawatts of gas-powered generation — is behind schedule and tied up in legal processes.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Countries are increasingly prioritising domestic energy resources as they seek to reduce their reliance on imported fuels in response to what the International Energy Agency (IEA)  is describing as the world’s largest-ever energy security crisis, precipitated by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Presenting the IEA’s eleventh World Energy Investment report, executive director Fatih Birol said that besides moves to domesticate energy supply amid a growing trust deficit, governments were also reshaping their investment strategies around diversification, electrification and energy efficiency.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this article, Energy Council of South Africa project delivery senior manager Vasanie Pather writes that, as South Africa's electricity sector moves toward a competitive market, tariffs must ensure full and sustainable cost recovery for system operation and network infrastructure.]]></description>
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            <title>TNPA signs 25-year LNG terminal agreement for Port of Ngqura</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has signed a 25-year terminal operator agreement with Ukwanda LNG, to develop an onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification facility at the Port of Ngqura, in the Eastern Cape. Ukwanda LNG is a JV between Tamasa Energy Group and the State-owned Strategic Fuel Fund, and operationalisation of the full terminal, with a yearly capacity of 3.6-million tons, is targeted for 2035.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Industrial Gas Users Association-Southern Africa (IGUA-SA) has outlined the policy requirements it believes are now required to mitigate what would otherwise be a steep decline in gas supply to domestic industry by 2030. Described as a ‘gas cliff’ the fall-off is anticipated when existing supply from Mozambique’s Pande-Temane fields is no longer available to industrial consumers from 2028 and after Sasol ends its temporary two-year supply of methane-rich gas, produced using coal.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that his department will publish a “sequenced” implementation roadmap for the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM) so as to address prevailing uncertainty over the transition to a competitive market structure. In his Budget Vote address on Tuesday, the Minister said the SAWEM would introduce clearer price signals, improve dispatch efficiency, allocate balancing responsibilities, improve transparency and reduce long-term reliance on the single buyer model.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[To advance its locally developed carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technology, South African company EPCM Global Engineering is progressing to the next stage of development through a comprehensive pilot plant programme aimed at attracting investment from State-owned and private sector partners. The company seeks to address major emissions challenges with solutions capable of delivering lasting impact.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <title>Gas, fuel-focused funding to support economies amid Gulf crisis</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an effort to support African and Caribbean economies affected by the ongoing Middle East conflict, multilateral trade finance institution African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) reports that it will make available $10-billion under its Gulf Crisis Response Programme (GCRP). The bank states that the programme aims to limit economic shocks affecting countries that rely on fuel, liquefied natural gas (LNG), fertilisers and food imports from the Gulf region. It does this by providing short-term foreign exchange and liquidity support to member States.]]></description>
            <author>Devina Haripersad</author>
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The Gulf Crisis Response Programme aims to limit economic shocks impacting countries that rely on affected fuel, liquefied natural gas, fertilisers and food imports
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            <title>Gas supply constraints  stall power transition</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Securing reliable, long-term gas supply is the main constraint to expanding gas-to-power and industrial energy solutions in South Africa, says electrical power solutions provider Clarke Energy commercial leader Kara Neale. She states that demand is not the fundamental issue, rather it is the availability of sufficient volumes of gas – an issue highlighted by recent hostilities between Iran and the US.]]></description>
            <author>Devina Haripersad</author>
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            <title>Global energy demand up 1.3% in 2025, electricity demand up by 3% – IEA</title>
            <link>https://newsletter-en.creamermedia.com/article/global-energy-demand-up-13-in-2025-electricity-demand-up-by-3-iea-2026-04-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Global energy demand growth slowed to 1.3% in 2025, which is slightly below the preceding decade’s average of 1.4% and significantly lower than in 2024, while global electricity demand increased by about 3%, which is more than twice the rate of overall energy demand growth, says international organisation the International Energy Agency (IEA). The main reasons for the slowdown in global energy demand were lower global economic growth, less extreme temperatures in some regions and rapid uptake of more efficient technologies.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Even under the low-carbon scenario, modelled by consulting firm Bain & Co in its 'Global Energy and Materials Outlook 2026' report, fossil fuel supply constitutes 52% of global primary energy supply by 2040 and the world warms by 2.1 °C by 2100. Even in the most coordinated decarbonisation scenario, climate impacts are severe and require that capital be allocated to resilience strategies, it notes.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s role as a strategic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) gateway to sub-Saharan Africa comes into focus this week, as government and industry leaders convene in Johannesburg. The sub-Saharan Africa LPG Expo taking place on April 9 and 10 at the Sandton Convention Centre will open with an address by Electricity and Energy Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré, setting the tone for a programme focused on clean cooking and South Africa’s evolving role in regional energy supply.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has the potential to develop at least one, and maybe as many as three, internationally competitive gigafactories for the manufacture of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells. This is the conclusion of a recent report undertaken for the non-profit and public benefit Localisation Support Fund (LSF) by Ernst & Young Advisory Services (EY-Parthenon). The biggest market will be the local manufacture of battery energy storage systems (BESS). Need and Demand]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Without regional trade, South Africa’s market will remain shallower, more volatile and less resilient to future power supply shocks, writes Africa GreenCo co-founder and chief commercial officer Cathy Oxby. Eskom is edging closer to a year without loadshedding, recently surpassing the 300-day mark – the longest stretch of uninterrupted power supply in years. Eskom Generation’s recovery plan, support from National Treasury’s debt relief for the utility and wider power sector reforms that have unlocked private generation capacity have all helped reduce power cuts.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <title>Panel mulls solutions to better coordinate gas development in South Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As gas receives more attention as a source of baseload electricity in South Africa and as the country nears a gas cliff for industrial users, there has been uncertainty about the required mix of gas-to-power projects, the load factors desired and whether open-cycle gas turbines or combined-cycle gas power plants are needed. During a webinar hosted by Creamer Media on March 25, experts unpacked the considerations for gas as a promising option to ensure energy security in the country, as well as the challenges to practically realise projects.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Netherlands-headquartered tank storage and terminal operator Vopak’s local subsidiary, Vopak South Africa, together with Transnet Pipelines, on March 13 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone (RBIDZ), committing to advance gas development in the province. The MoU comes as Vopak South Africa and Transnet Pipelines finalise commercial agreements and contractor appointments ahead of a final investment decision on the Zululand Energy Terminal (ZET) at the Port of Richards Bay, which will mark South Africa’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has highlighted the current global upheavals and what they mean for African energy in his welcoming address at Africa Energy Indaba 2026, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Tuesday. "The global order, as we have known it for decades, is recalibrating in real time," he pointed out. "Energy sits at the epicentre of this reordering. Electricity has become sovereignty expressed in electrons."]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) could play a significant role in improving energy access, resilience and economic participation across Africa, particularly in regions where grid-based electricity infrastructure remains limited, highlights industry association World Liquid Gas Association (WLGA) CEO and MD James Rockall. He says that Africa continues to face deep structural energy deficits, with about 600-million people lacking access to electricity and roughly 80% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa without access to clean cooking fuels.]]></description>
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