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

Mongabay
Feb 18, 2025, 10:07 am73 pts
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…

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