Report (2016): “The island nation of Cape Verde has pledged to power the entire country with nothing but renewable energy by the year 2020, and vowed to help other African states work towards the same goal in future. With almost no mineral resources of its own and little arable farmland, the outcrop in the middle of the Atlantic ocean relies on expensive imports for almost all the needs of its 550,000 population. But there are two things it does have in abundance: sun and wind” (Adam Withnall, “Cape Verde: the African country that plans to run on 100% renewable energy by 2020”, Independent, 29 September 2016: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cape-verde-the-african-country-that-plans-to-run-on-100-renewable-energy-by-2020-a7337426.html ).
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