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17 Countries Commit to Concrete Plans to Scale Up Electricity Access as Mission 300 Expands
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At the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum, national Energy Compacts were endorsed by Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, the Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, São Tomé and Principe, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
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