Africa sticks to coal for energy development

African countries have set out their stalls with regard to the use of coal to develop the continent’s low electricity capacity in order to tackle poverty. They are doing so amid calls for other means of generating energy at the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, where the recently ratified Paris Agreement, dealing with reducing greenhouse gasses emissions and financing to combat climate change beginning in 2020, is top on the agenda Read Full Story