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2009 December: INFORSE-Africa members participated at UNFCCC COP15 as NGO observers. Representatives of members made presentations at the side events, and made several contacts at the INFORSE information booths.
Read proceedings and see pictures at: INFORSE at COP15
2009 April: INFORSE-members Cooperation Project in Uganda
Cooperation among: JEEP (Joint Energy and Environment Projects) in Uganda Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy in Denmark, and the Mali Folkecenter in 2007-09.
Download: Sustainable Energy News 64 pdf 1.6 MB file (article is on page 10.)
More: JEEP, and Nordic Folkecenter.

2009 January:
Publication of INFORSE-East Africa Cooperation
Sustainable Energy Solutions in East Africa

The report focuses on the framework required if small-scale sustainable energy projects are to succeed in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The report discusses each country’s energy situation together with country-specific experiences and recommendations. Afterwards, general experiences and recommendations are summarized.
Efforts of the NGOs involved have been coordinated within the framework of the East African coordination node of INFORSE (CDI, Uganda).

Edited by Timothy Byakola, Climate and Development Initiatives (CDI) & INFORSE East Africa, Uganda; Oscar Lema, Tanzania Traditional Energy Development and Environment Organisation (TaTEDO); and Torhildur Kristjansdottir and John Lineikro, Norges Naturvernforbund (FoE Norway).
Pdf, 542 kB, 42 p., January, 2009.
- Download Publication from: FoE-Norway
- More information: TaTEDO in Tanzania, CDI in Uganda,and FoE Norway .

2008 December
INFORSE participated as NGO observer at the UNFCCC COP14, December 1-12, 2008. INFORSE also had an exhibition stall and a side event
From the INFORSE Africa Coordinators participated: ENDA (Senegal) and Earthlife Africa (South Africa). ENDA also participated with its own exhibition stall. Read more on the INFORSE participation at the conference at COP14

2008-2009 German Volunteers to Africa
If your organisation in Africa, would like to host a young volunteer from Germany, please read the German INFORSE member Artefact's call: Solivol.
2008 July - Play to electricity in Namibia
Article in Sustainable Energy News (SEN) issue 61. See at page 9 on SEN # 61.
Articles from 2004
2004: Article: No smoke while the sun shines this Earth Day (pdf file)
By Richard Worthington, Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Partnership, a project of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg
(Opinion Piece that appeared in Business Day and This Day, 22 April 2004)
2004: Article: Renewable Energy Can also get South Africa working (PDF file)
By Claire Taylor, Information Coordinator, Sustainable Energy and Climate Change
Partnership, a project of Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg and member of the Energy
Caucus
See more in Sustainable Energy News