Politics Dim Obama’s Africa Power Plan as Lights Go Out (Bloomberg)

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“If Power Africa works, then it would deliver a huge boost for African countries,” Ben Leo, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington and a former White House director of Africa affairs, said in an e-mail. “Addressing the energy poverty challenge will take years, and Obama only has two left.”

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Disease is a barrier in Liberia, another of the six focus nations and an epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.

“The health crisis is obviously a short-term deterrent for investors,” Todd Moss, a former deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s bureau of African affairs, wrote in an e-mail. He pointed out that the country has no large-scale power plants. “Part of the recovery will be building an electricity sector.”

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