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.
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This can't be true. All that money was spent a decade ago. Anything spent today just increases our debt to Communist China.
Can’t be....Forbidden....No US President can...
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.
I sure these nyew power plants won’t be coal fired.
After his term is up.
Thanks for telling me about the $100,000 gazebo.
solyndra africana .....
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