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Africa’s Offshore Wind Paradox: 100GW Announced, Zero Commissioned

Africa has extraordinary offshore wind resources and a pipeline of announced projects exceeding 100GW. Commissioned capacity is precisely zero megawatts. BETAR investigates the regulatory failures, financing gaps, and cost economics blocking the continent’s most-discussed but least-delivered energy frontier.

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Africa's $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance

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Energy & Climate

Africa’s $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance

BETAR Newsroom
April 7, 2026

Twelve African countries are building or approving $50 billion in LNG and gas infrastructure. The economic case is defensible. The climate finance cost — in DFI conditionality, NDC budget erosion, and lost carbon credit revenue — is not fully priced in.

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Africa's Clean Energy Blind Spot: How Drought Is Destroying the Continent's Most Reliable Renewable

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Energy & Climate

Africa’s Clean Energy Blind Spot: How Drought Is Destroying the Continent’s Most Reliable Renewable

BETAR Newsroom
March 27, 2026

Seven African countries generate more than 80% of their electricity from hydropower. As El Niño-driven droughts drain their reservoirs, the continent’s oldest and most dependable clean energy source is becoming its biggest liability — and climate finance is not designed to save it.

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South Africa's JETP: $11B Promised. Disbursement Is Stalled. Who Is Accountable?

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Energy & Climate

South Africa’s JETP: $11B Promised. Disbursement Is Stalled. Who Is Accountable?

BETAR Newsroom
March 25, 2026

South Africa JETP climate finance — $11B commitment, disbursement delays, governance gaps, and who is accountable for the just transition.

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Africa's COP30 Countdown: Which Countries Have the Finance to Back Their Climate Pledges?

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Energy & Climate

Africa’s COP30 Countdown: Which Countries Have the Finance to Back Their Climate Pledges?

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

With COP30 eight months away and African NDC updates due before June, BETAR rates five Tier-1 markets on whether their climate pledges have credible financing behind them — or whether Belém will expose a widening gap.

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America's Africa Energy Pivot: Clean Cooking and Critical Minerals Instead of Climate Aid

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Energy & Climate

America’s Africa Energy Pivot: Clean Cooking and Critical Minerals Instead of Climate Aid

BETAR Newsroom
March 21, 2026

America’s Africa energy pivot in 2026: from Power Africa aid to DFC commercial lending, critical minerals extraction, and clean cooking market development.

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AIIM Launches $200M ATAF: Africa's Infrastructure Money Is Finally Moving Into the Energy Transition

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Energy & Climate

AIIM Launches $200M ATAF: Africa’s Infrastructure Money Is Finally Moving Into the Energy Transition

BETAR Newsroom
March 21, 2026

African Infrastructure Investment Managers has reached a $65M first close on the $200M African Transition Acceleration Fund. FSD Africa Investments and Allied Climate Partners anchor with $50M. Proparco, IFC and KfW co-invest. Africa’s most experienced infrastructure manager is now running a dedicated energy-transition vehicle.

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I&M Bank and SIDA's $30M Green Finance Facility: How DFI Risk-Sharing Is Migrating Into Kenya's Commercial Banking Sector

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Energy & Climate

I&M Bank and SIDA’s $30M Green Finance Facility: How DFI Risk-Sharing Is Migrating Into Kenya’s Commercial Banking Sector

BETAR Newsroom
March 21, 2026

A USD 15 million SIDA guarantee unlocks USD 30 million in green lending at I&M Bank Kenya. The structure shows how DFI risk-sharing instruments can migrate from development bank balance sheets into commercial banking.

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Energy & Climate

AIIM Launches $200M ATAF: Africa’s Infrastructure Money Is Finally Moving Into the Energy Transition

BETAR Newsroom
March 21, 2026

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Africa Clean Energy Finance Q1 2026: $8B Quarter, Commercial Banks Break Through

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Energy & Climate

Africa Clean Energy Finance Q1 2026: $8B Quarter, Commercial Banks Break Through

BETAR Newsroom
March 21, 2026

Africa clean energy finance Q1 2026 review: $8B in transactions, record commercial bank participation, and the structural shift in how African clean energy gets funded.

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Climate Finance

Africa’s Offshore Wind Paradox: 100GW Announced, Zero Commissioned

Africa’s $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance

Africa’s Clean Energy Blind Spot: How Drought Is Destroying the Continent’s Most Reliable Renewable

South Africa’s JETP: $11B Promised. Disbursement Is Stalled. Who Is Accountable?

Africa’s COP30 Countdown: Which Countries Have the Finance to Back Their Climate Pledges?

America’s Africa Energy Pivot: Clean Cooking and Critical Minerals Instead of Climate Aid

AIIM Launches $200M ATAF: Africa’s Infrastructure Money Is Finally Moving Into the Energy Transition

I&M Bank and SIDA’s $30M Green Finance Facility: How DFI Risk-Sharing Is Migrating Into Kenya’s Commercial Banking Sector

AIIM Launches $200M ATAF: Africa’s Infrastructure Money Is Finally Moving Into the Energy Transition

Africa Clean Energy Finance Q1 2026: $8B Quarter, Commercial Banks Break Through

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