What Happened:  The Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli remarked during the opening session of the fifth Arab Forum on the Prospects of Nuclear Power for Electricity Generation and Seawater Desalination, that nuclear energy is one of the strategic options in his country’s energy mix necessary to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by […]

Egypt’s Nuclear Energy: An option to achieving sustainable development

What Happened: The Senate of Nigeria passed a resolution that called on the government, under President Buhari, to consider including nuclear power in the country’s energy mix. On November 21, World Nuclear News reported that the Senate asked the government to give the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission a mandate for talks with nuclear reactor vendors […]

Nigeria: Senate Calls for Inclusion of Nuclear in Energy Mix

Speaking to African heads of state and representatives from Russian, African, and international business and government agencies, Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachov yesterday emphasized the benefits of nuclear energy in job creation and regional economic development. At the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia, Likhachov said global inequality in technological, industrial and socio-economic development was “acutely felt” […]

Nuclear energy can bridge the skills gap in Africa, says Rosatom DG