The IEA has long focused on Africa’s energy sector, including work on the continent’s energy access issues since 2002. In October, the IEA published Africa Energy Outlook 2019, its most comprehensive and in-depth work to date about the continent, with a particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. He worked on Focus on Africa and Network Africa, the BBC’s daily current affairs programmes for its audience in Africa. The International Energy Agency, the global energy authority, was founded in 1974 to help its member countries co-ordinate a collective response to major oil supply disruptions. Its mission has evolved and rests today on three main pillars: working to ensure global energy security; expanding energy cooperation and dialogue around the world; and promoting an environmentally sustainable energy future.

Source: Daily Observer February 25, 2020 02:30 UTC