Counties critical champions for Kenya’s 80pc clean energy access

A boda boda rider passes along Market road in Elburgon Town, Nakuru County transporting bags of charcoal for sale on December 24, 2024.

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In rural Kenya, the daily ritual of cooking is a battle against time and soot – mothers gathering firewood, smoke from cooking fire filling homes, clothes and lungs coated in layers of ash, painting the walls black.

It is the life of 90 percent of households; millions of people, in what is a quiet struggle for a clean flame. So, how can they move away from the choking, billowing smoke to clean fuels?

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