Mission 300 flips the switch for 50 million Africans, but harder work lies ahead

Daily Maverick | 19.06.2026 03:25
Mission 300, launched in 2024, is being backed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and Sustainable Energy for All. It is intended to tackle one of Africa’s most stubborn development failures: the fact that about 600 million people, almost half the continent’s population, still live without access to electricity.