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Less than 30 per cent of African households have access to electricity. And yet on African soil two vastly ambitious energy projects have been launched - Desertec and the Grand Inga Dam, the latter hailed by the World Bank as a spur to development. The Independent's Africa correspondent Daniel Howden weighs the pros and cons of these schemes, much of whose projected production will go to Europe.
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