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Kenya races toward goal of electrifying every household

Clip: 5/20/2017 | 9m 8s

Kenya races toward goal of electrifying every household

Kenya has made rapid gains in connecting households across the country to the electrical grid, as part of a goal to achieve universal access to power by 2020. Over the past three years the east-African country has connected 12.4 million people, becoming a model on a continent where half of the population lives without electricity. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay reports.

05/20/2017

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