{{Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has said Africa must invest to overturn the energy deficit in many countries.<\/p>\n
He was addressing the Africa Energy Summit on the sidelines of the World Energy Forum.}}<\/p>\n
Mugabe underscored the right of nations to pursue peaceful nuclear options for power generation.<\/p>\n
He said it was disheartening to note that Africa was \u201ca case of energy underdevelopment and energy under-consumption\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy own country, Zimbabwe, sits on huge coal deposits we cannot harness. We also sit on significant deposits of methane gas which remain unexploited.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe billion-strong African continent accounts for a mere 3 percent of global power consumption,\u201d said Mugabe.<\/p>\n
\u201cPer capita electricity consumption in Africa, we are told, is about 60kWh compared to 8 000kWh in the United States of America.<\/p>\n
He said Inga Dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo could easily light up the whole continent if fully developed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am raising issues of creating a good, progressive energy policy environment on the continent which ensures we invest in our energy sector while we value-add on that same resource for greater energy access to our people and for greater export value to our economies,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Africa\u2019s marginalisation in the global economy, he said, replicated itself as the continent\u2019s marginalisation on the energy front.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are exporters of primary energy commodity, which is why pipelines and ships daily cart crude from the continent for refinement elsewhere in the developed world before the same commodity comes back to us as huge fossil energy bill; which we can hardly afford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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