(MENAFN) President Barack Obama is set launch a USD7 billion initiative over five years to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, Reuters reported.
The initiative aims at addressing Africa's crippling lack of electrical power.
The president has chosen historically resonant locations for the programme, and is due to speak at the University of Cape Town after touring the prison on Robben Island.
Obama will cite South Africa's long struggle to defeat apartheid and the US civil rights movement's success in overcoming racial inequality as models of movements that brought about change in the face of daunting obstacles.
He will also call on young Africans to summon similar energy to complete the work of those movements and to firmly establish economic growth, democratic government, and stable societies across the continent.
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