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    Mission 300 sends energy fellows into governments across Africa

    Young energy professionals are being embedded inside government delivery units as part of the push to connect 300 million people in Africa to electricity by 2030.

    By Ayenat Mersie // 11 March 2026

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    An effort to halve the number of Africans without electricity is getting a boost.

    Nonprofit impact accelerator CoAction Global announced this month that the Mission 300 Fellowship program will grow from 14 fellows to 22, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. Mission 300, led by the World Bank and the African Development Bank, aims to connect 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa to electricity by 2030.

    The fellows are embedded within compact delivery and monitoring units, or CDMUs — government teams responsible for implementing national electrification plans under the initiative.

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      Ayenat Mersie is a Global Development Reporter for Devex. Previously, she worked as a freelance journalist for publications such as National Geographic and Foreign Policy and as an East Africa correspondent for Reuters.

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