Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Exclusive: Obama plan to 'Power Africa' gets off to a dim start [more lies from Obama]
yahoo.com ^ | November 28, 2014 | Joe Brock

Posted on 11/28/2014 7:20:17 AM PST by grundle

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Barack Obama last year told a cheering crowd in Cape Town that a $7 billion plan to "Power Africa" would double electricity output on the world's poorest continent and bring "light where currently there is darkness".

A year later, the U.S. president's flagship project for Africa has already achieved 25 percent of its goal to deliver 10,000 megawatts of electricity and bring light to 20 million households and businesses, according to its annual report.

But the five-year plan has not yet delivered the power.

Power Africa has not measured its progress by counting actual megawatts added to the grid but promises of additional power made in deals it says it helped negotiate, according to sources inside the project and documents seen by Reuters.

Some projects facilitated by Power Africa -- a program operated by the U.S. aid agency USAID -- were under way years before the scheme's inception, others are still in the planning stage.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: obama; obamalies
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last
To: Iron Munro
He is extorting and stealing money from working class, taxpaying Americans...

This can't be true. All that money was spent a decade ago. Anything spent today just increases our debt to Communist China.

21 posted on 11/28/2014 8:38:45 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: immadashell


22 posted on 11/28/2014 8:57:10 AM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Chickensoup

Can’t be....Forbidden....No US President can...


23 posted on 11/28/2014 9:18:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Iron Munro

Yet another criminal exercise in spreading US taxpayer money to Clown Prince nobama’s “friends” (aka corrupt afro-dictators). What a scam!!! Just why isn’t Clown Prince nobama in a Fed SuperMax? The race card is getting worn-out. I’d like to put out a big “thanks” to all the idiots who elected and reelected this corrosive degenerate.


24 posted on 11/28/2014 9:20:10 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: grundle

I sure these nyew power plants won’t be coal fired.


25 posted on 11/28/2014 10:31:49 AM PST by Rockpile
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chickensoup

After his term is up.


26 posted on 11/28/2014 10:52:12 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: driftdiver

Thanks for telling me about the $100,000 gazebo.


27 posted on 11/28/2014 3:25:09 PM PST by grundle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: grundle

solyndra africana .....


28 posted on 11/28/2014 4:13:08 PM PST by zzwhale
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson