Zambia’s energy potential Dr. Kipyego Cheluget

By Ashton Kelly Bunda

COMESA Assistant Secretary General (Adminstratiobn and Finance) Ambassador Nagla El-Hussainy

COMMON Market for Southern and Eastern Africa (COMESA) Assistant  Secretary General Dr.  Kipyego Cheluget brags over Africa’s potential for hydro energy.

Zambia with 40 percent water resources boasts of being endowed as a leader of renewable energy.

Officiating Lusaka’s Intercontinental Hotel during the 31^st January to 2^nd February 2017 Sustainable Energy Southern Africa Forum of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership, Dr. Cheluget conceded that energy is a common challenge in Africa.

The COMESA Assistant General hosted a multi-stakeholders forum on Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) supported by the Africa-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP).

“The 7^th National Plan Sustainable in Energy cannot be achieved by the private sector alone.  Civil Society Organisations and COMESA Member States must participate to make it possible to mobilize the solutions to this energy challenge,” Dr. Cheluget prodded.

COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya

Dr Cheluget says COMESA Member States consumed 625 per capital of energy in 2015, noting Africa’s potential to export energy outside the continent.

COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya and Assistant Secretary General (Adminstratiobn and Finance) Ambassador Nagla El-Hussainy hosted the Lusaka meeting.

List of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva in this May 11, 2011 file photo. Ban is planning to formally announce his candidacy for a second five-term as U.N. secretary-general early next week, U.N. diplomats said on June 4, 2011. The former South Korean foreign minister had already received assurances of support from the U.S.and other key members of the U.N. Security Council, diplomats said in March, making his re-election all but certain. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files (SWITZERLAND – Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT)

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