![]() ![]() The Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of experts led by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, puts the number of Africans without any power at 620m, most of them in villages and on farms. Of all the measures of the continent’s poverty, few are starker than that about two-thirds of its people have no access to reliable electricity. But apart from speckles of light around the biggest cities, much of Africa is dark. ![]() The rich world is awash with great glowing orbs for the main population centres and orange tentacles for the roads that link them. WHEN SATELLITES TRAIN their cameras onto Africa at night, it is almost as if they are peering back to an age before electricity.
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