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African Leaders have ended a 2- day Energy Summit, with the adoption of the Dar es Salaam Declaration.
Thirty African Heads of State and government committed to concrete reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to power economic growth, improve quality of life, and drive job creation across the continent.
The Declaration focused on providing access to electricity for 300 million people in Africa by 2030 and also pledged more than $50 billion in support of increasing energy access across Africa.
A high point of the event was the presidential endorsement of the Declaration by African leaders at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre.
The Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration represents a key milestone in addressing the energy gap in Africa, where more than 600 million people currently live without electricity.
The commitments in the Declaration are a critical piece of the Mission 300 initiative, which unites governments, development banks, partners, philanthropies, and the private sector to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030.
The nations plan to achieve the goal through National Energy Compacts, which identify specific policy measures to address constraints across their energy sector and set targets based on their unique context.
The Declaration will now be submitted to the African Union Summit in February for adoption.
The two-day Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit was hosted by the government of Tanzania in collaboration with the African Union, the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the World Bank Group, adopted the Dar es Salaam Declaration.
