{"id":26983,"date":"2016-07-18T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/au-summit-we-need-electricity-for-sustainable\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T06:04:22","slug":"au-summit-we-need-electricity-for-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/au-summit-we-need-electricity-for-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"AU summit: We need electricity for sustainable progress &#8211; Macky Sall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The president of Senegal and the head of the council of head of sates from New Partnership for Africa&#8217;s Development (NEPAD), Macky Sall has stressed the need to build citizens\u2019 capacities in science and technology and put much emphasis in the distribution of electricity to exploit Africa\u2019s opportunities.}<\/p>\n<p>He unveiled this during the launch of the session of heads of states in NEPAD as the 27th African Union summit is held in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>NEPAD was initiated in 2001 in the capital city of Zambia, Lusaka. It aims at providing baseline of economy rooted on cooperation and integration of African countries. <\/p>\n<p>President Macky Sall has requested heads of states and government to promote industries as stimulus for development stating and noted it can\u2019t be attained if the matter of electricity shortage is not addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t attain targeted development without sustainable adequate electricity regardless of existing capacities .It is necessary to put much emphasis on electricity since industries wouldn\u2019t progress without power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Macky Sall said that Africa will only reach envisaged transformation when it focuses on development responding to citizens\u2019 needs putting efforts in cooperation and countries\u2019 integration as envisaged in Vision 2063.<\/p>\n<p>The chairperson of African Union commission, Dr.Dlamini Zuma requested heads of state to bring private investors in the fold as a pillar for Africa\u2019s development.      <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13595 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/macky_sall_photo.jpg\" alt=\"The president of Senegal and the head of the council of head of sates from New Partnership for Africa&#039;s Development (NEPAD), Macky Sall \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The president of Senegal and the head of the council of head of sates from New Partnership for Africa&#8217;s Development (NEPAD), Macky Sall has stressed the need to build citizens\u2019 capacities in science and technology and put much emphasis in the distribution of electricity to exploit Africa\u2019s opportunities.} He unveiled this during the launch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26983"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26983"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}