As the West surges toward electric cars, here’s where the unwanted gas guzzlers go | CNN

Cotonou, Benin CNN  —  Standing on the stony ground in the bustling Fifa Park car lot, Rokeeb Yaya is haggling over the price of

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Batteries for hire could help Nigerians ditch their generators | CNN

CNN  —  Although Nigeria has vast energy reserves, more than 92 million people in the country live without access to electricity, according to the

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Libyan armed group says barrels of missing natural uranium recovered | CNN

CNN  —  A Libyan armed group claims to have found the barrels of natural uranium that went missing in southern Libya. A spokesman for

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Dead chickens and decomposing bodies: Inside South Africa’s power blackout ‘pandemic’ | CNN

Johannesburg, South Africa CNN  —  Car crashes, opportunistic criminals, rotting food, decomposing bodies, bankrupt businesses, and water shortages. Welcome to life under South Africa’s

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Opinion: ‘Africa’s COP’ made some big promises. Here’s how to deliver | CNN

Editor’s Note: Adjoa Adjei-Twum. She is the Founder & CEO of the Africa-focused and UK-based advisory firm Emerging Business Intelligence and Innovation (EBII) Group

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COP27 summit agrees to help climate victims. But it does nothing to stop fossil fuels | CNN

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt CNN  —  The world has failed to reach an agreement to phase out fossil fuels after marathon UN climate talks were

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Activists hoped Egypt’s COP27 would bring a focus on Africa. They were disappointed | CNN

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt CNN  —  The crowd was loving what Bhekumuzi Bhebhe had to say, cheering loudly as he yelled “don’t gas Africa!” into

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Construction completed on Nigeria’s $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Sea Port | CNN

CNN  —  Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center, has a storage problem. At the West African trade hub’s shipping terminals, projected demand for container space far

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Uganda’s President Museveni slams ‘Western double standards’ over coal mine plans | CNN

CNN  —  Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has slammed Western countries over what he calls a “reprehensible double standard” in their response to the energy

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As countries convene at climate summit in Egypt, reports show the world is wildly off track. Here’s what to watch at COP27 | CNN

CNN  —  As global leaders converge in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the UN’s annual climate summit, researchers, advocates and the United Nations itself are

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