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Private Sector Joins Clean Energy Drive for Africa's Refugees

Lisa Bryant

   GENEVA - In northern Ethiopia, tens of thousands of mostly Eritrean
   refugees are getting connected to families back home, partly thanks to
   last year's peace deal between Addis Ababa and Asmara, butalso to clean
   energy.
   A Spanish alliance that includes three power companies is linking
   refugee camps in Shire, near the border with Eritrea, to the country's
   energy grid, which largely relies on hydropower. The next step is
   equipping refugee households with solar energy.

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