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Currently, South Africa is the only African country generating electricity from nuclear. It produced 12.2 billion kWh (6% of the total energy grid) in 2021, according to the World Nuclear Association. The following are listed as "emerging nuclear countries" on the association's website, based on ...

According to the most recent annual report from the custodian agencies of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 on energy, in 2019 Nigeria had the largest population without access to electricity at 90 million people. ...

Ghana is Africa’s largest producer of gold. Production was reported at 140,000 kg in Dec 2020. South Africa, for so long the dominant source of gold for the market, is now second in Africa, with production reported at 90,000 kg in Dec 2020. ...

The African continent accounts for five among the top 30 oil-producing nations in the world. The countries with the highest oil production in Africa are Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2021 Algeria ranked as the highest prod...

​​According to the Joint Monitoring Programme, a data platform run by WHO and UNICEF, in 2020 35% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had access to piped water. ...

SDG 6 seeks to ensure safe drinking water and sanitation for all. In Sub-Saharan Africa, as of 2020, 30% of the population used a safely managed drinking water service, 21% of the population used a safely managed sanitation service, and 26% of the population had a handwashing facility with soa...