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Mahube Infrastructure Limited (JSE: MHB), one of South Africa’s few pure-play renewable energy investment vehicles, is preparing to leave the Johannesburg Stock Exchange . This will be made possible through a scheme of arrangement that would shift the company into private ownership under Sustent Holdings, an SPV controlled by the Mergence Renewable Energy Debt Fund…
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Safaricom’s debut green bond has completely blown away Kenya’s corporate debt market. Targeting KSh 15 billion, the five-year tax-exempt note attracted an incredible KSh 41.6 billion in bids, an oversubscription of 175.7%, the largest ever for a Kenyan corporate issue. Safaricom ultimately upsized to KSh 20 billion via its full greenshoe and refunded KSh 21.4…
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In the cashew and shea belts of northern Benin, where smallholder farmers live at the mercy of erratic rains and ruthless price swings, an $800,000 cheque may seem insignificant. Yet for MM LEKKER, the Abomey-Calavi agribusiness stitching together one of the country’s most fragmented supply chains, it could be transformational. Sahel Capital’s Social Enterprise Fund…
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Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. In 2022, Pakistan, responsible for less than 1% of historical cumulative CO₂ emissions, saw catastrophic floods submerge roughly one-third of its territory at their peak, affecting 33 million people and displacing…
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Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. While supercomputers struggled to predict the intensity of the 2024 Amazon fire season, exacerbated by historic drought and releasing millions of tonnes of CO₂, Yanomami fire watchers in Brazil’s Roraima state…
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Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. There is no legal term “climate refugee” in international law, yet the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) counted a record 45.8 million climate-displaced people in 2024 alone, nearly double the annual…
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Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. During India’s 2025 heatwaves, among the most severe on record, with temperatures exceeding 45°C in parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan, men died visibly on construction sites from heatstroke, but women suffered…
Ronnie Paul is a seasoned writer and analyst with a prolific portfolio of over 100 published articles, specialising in climate change at Africa Digest News. At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan’s delegate Ralph Regenvanu held up a simple pie chart: 20 rich countries caused 78% of historical emissions since 1850. Then he asked for the bill. This…
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South Africa’s renewable-energy landscape completed one of its most consequential transactions of the year when Cennergi Holdings, the green-energy subsidiary of Exxaro Resources, acquired ACCIONA Energía’s majority stakes in the 138 MW Gouda Wind Farm and 75 MW Sishen Solar Plant. The R1.7–R1.8 billion ($95–$100 million) deal instantly elevates Cennergi’s operating footprint from 200 MW…
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Proparco announced an undisclosed equity investment in BasiGo, the Nairobi-born e-mobility disruptor rewriting East Africa’s transit playbook. The investment slots into AFD’s €1 billion annual mobility mandate, and it directly accelerates BasiGo’s “Road to 1000” vision, scaling from today’s 100 electric buses to 1,000 zero-emission units across East Africa. With 1.4 million clean kilometres, 9…
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