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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Cars That Think

Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts. The urban-rural divide has been eliminated in North Africa’s Arab countries, but it remains wide in sub-Saharan Africa, where 78 percent of urban populations but only 28 percent of rural inhabitants have connections.

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Sasol embarking on feasibility study on a US gas-to-liquids facility in Louisiana

Green Car Congress

South African energy and chemicals group Sasol today announced that it has chosen the southwestern region of the State of Louisiana as the site for a planned gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. Sasol continues to advance upstream oil and gas activities in Mozambique, Nigeria, Gabon, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Canada and South Africa.

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