Reports, papers, and analysis from 3Bi’s research on climate change, conflict, governance, and community resilience—rooted in Sudan and connected across Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA.
Tanzania inaugurated a 2,115MW hydropower dam on the Rufiji River on 22 August 2026 — fully self-financed, and built inside a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Sudan's grid crisis is a single-point-of-failure problem, not just a capacity one. This week's Shendi repair, new solar plans, and Azerbaijani investment interest show the diversification pivot underway…
Saudi Arabia just signed $1.16bn for 2,000MW of aggregated grid battery storage under one buyer. Sudan's donor-funded storage programmes are still procured project-by-project — the fix is aggregation,…
Algeria's grid broke its own electricity-demand record three days running this week, absorbing the heatwave spike with an 8,000-megawatt surplus. Sudan's war-damaged grid has no equivalent cushion to…
A record Rhine drought is straining Europe's wealthiest logistics network. The Nile Basin's own 2026 outlook says Sudan and Egypt will bear the worst of this year's hydrological…
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…
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…
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 —…
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.
