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Europe Can’t Insure Its Way Out of a $953 Billion Climate Bill. Sudan Shouldn’t Be Asked to Try.
Europe's own $953bn climate-disaster bill shows insurance covers only a quarter of losses even in a mature market. Sudan's ADRiFi risk-financing pilot expires this year mid-war — 3Bi…
Arab Solar-Panel Imports Fell 27% in H1 2026. Egypt’s Share Doubled. Sudan Isn’t Even in the Numbers.
New H1 2026 trade data show Arab solar-panel imports down 27% as Gulf shipping disruption reroutes supply — Egypt's share doubled, and Sudan doesn't appear in the rankings…
Algeria and Tunisia’s Grids Nearly Broke From Heat Alone This Summer. Sudan Is Rebuilding From Scratch — It Can’t Copy Their Blueprint.
Heat alone nearly broke Algeria's and Tunisia's power grids this summer. As Sudan rebuilds its war-damaged grid around distributed solar, it must design for climate resilience now —…
Sudan Doesn’t Need More Solar Panels. It Needs the Batteries That Go With Them.
Global battery storage supply is growing fastest in the small-scale segment Sudan needs. 3Bi's policy brief argues Sudan's solar donors should fund storage now, while it's cheap.
Africa’s Green Hydrogen Pipeline: One Investment Decision Out of 31 Projects. Sudan Says Water and Food Come First.
Only one of 31 announced African green-hydrogen projects has reached a final investment decision. At a Cairo panel this week, a Sudanese water-ministry official said the continent should…
Egypt Just Locked In 20 Years of Wind Power at 2.4 Cents. Sudan’s Solar Borrowers Are Still Paying 35%.
Egypt signed two 20-year wind power PPAs in ten days at 2.4 cents/kWh. Sudanese solar borrowers still pay 20-35% interest. The contract structure, not wealth, is the transferable…
Sudan Doesn’t Need Another Solar Mandate. It Needs Jordan’s Financing Model.
Jordan's decade-old blended-finance fund shows what Sudan's still-toothless solar-financing mandate is missing. 3Bi recommends Sudan and its donors capitalize a similar fund.
Mozambique’s $30 Billion Gas Project Just Got Its Engineering Contractor. Sudan’s Solar Developers Are Paying 35% Interest for a Fraction of That Capital.
A $30 billion Mozambique LNG project moved toward final investment approval this week. Sudanese solar developers meeting basic energy needs still face 20-35% domestic lending rates for a…
Algeria’s Solar-Panel Imports Just Collapsed 46%. That’s the Warning Sudan Needs Before 2033.
Algeria's Chinese solar-panel imports just fell 46%. The data shows the bottleneck is tendering capacity, not money or sunlight — a warning Sudan needs before its 2033 solar…