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Indigenous people cut down trees as solar energy remains inaccessible and costly in DRC

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LUBUMBASHI — When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief’s house is illuminated. In this village in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tanganyika province, just four residents own a solar panel. Roughly the size of a small notebook and mounted on a roof, the panel serves as the primary source of electricity in Lukwangulo. Its use is limited to charging 12V batteries, powering cell phones, or playing…

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Indigenous people cut down trees as solar energy remains inaccessible and costly in DRC

LUBUMBASHI — When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief’s house is illuminated. In this village in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tanganyika province, just four residents own a solar panel. Roughly the size of a small notebook and mounted on a roof, the panel serves as the primary source of electricity in Lukwangulo. Its use is limited to charging 12V batteries, powering cell phones, or playing…

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Indigenous people in DRC cut down trees as solar energy remains inaccessible and costly

LUBUMBASHI - When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief's house is illuminated. In this village in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Tanganyika province, just four residents own a solar panel. Roughly the size of a small notebook and mounted on a roof, the panel serves as the primary source of electricity in Lukwangulo. Its use is limited to charging 12V batteries, powering cell phones, or playing…

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