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The South African government has announced that it's tapping into its foreign reserves to try to reduce its enormous debts. Nuclear power is key to Ghana’s transition to greener energy
The unusual move was announced by the finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, as he gave his budget speech in Cape Town. but the switch is facing delays, a top official has told the BBC’s Climate
South Africa's current borrowings are the highest since 1947 and more money is spent servicing the debts than on education and health. Question podcast.
The opposition has accused the governing ANC party of trying to sway voters ahead of the general election in May, which could see the party lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid 30 years ago. The West African nation wants one or two nuclear power
plants to be up and running by 2030.
But Stephen Yamoah, executive director of state-run
Nuclear Power Ghana, says the country is behind schedule.
“We should probably have been starting construction now, but
we’re still engaging to identify the [right] vendor,” the nuclear power chief said.
The delays were caused by “financial” rather than “technical" issues, Mr Yamoah said.
The Ghanaian government had been in talks with China, France,
Russia, South Korea and the US about building the nuclear plants, he added.
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Ghana’s nuclear plan and whether it will help fight climate change
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