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A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries (techxplore.com)
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A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries::A team of economists and engineers from China, Turkey and Nigeria has published a proposal based on simulations to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries. In their paper published in the journal Scientific ...

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[–] mikeyBoy14@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mate, a good third of the countries on that list are currently suffering such brutal ethnic violence that it might be considered genocide. Close to half are riddled by islamic terrorism, usually directed towards ethnic minorites. At least two of them are in the middle of civil wars.

[–] ladybug@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

This comment made me realize that South Sudan isn’t on the map in despite the power grid near it.