(Tanzania) - A group of villagers gather at the local bicycle repair shop at Njiapanda, a dusty roadside hamlet on the rift valley in Singida region in central Tanzania, to marvel at magazine pictures of massive electricity-generating wind turbines.

They have never seen anything like this before and are clearly impressed.

They will soon find out exactly what the turbines are like. In a matter of months, 24 of these 100m-plus-high power generators will be erected next to their homes, as part of the first commercial wind farm in sub-Saharan Africa.

This is one of the poorest parts of Tanzania. There is little agriculture, no industry, but one thing there is plenty of is wind.

It is an untapped resource, but one which could hold the key to providing much-needed electricity to central and northern Tanzania and kick-starting the development of the region. 

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A plan to build the largest and most powerful hydroelectric dam in the world is being discussed in London.

Financiers and African politicians will look at how to finance the $80bn (?40bn) cost of the Grand Inga project.

The plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo would generate twice as much energy as China's Three Gorges dam.

It is hoped it will boost Africa's electricity supply by a third, but opponents doubt it will help the poorest Africans without electricity.

The World Energy Council, (WEC) which is hosting the two-day meeting in London, says the Grand Inga project will help the estimated 500 million Africans without access to electricity.

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A British entrepreneur that created world?s top soccer website now teams with leading global health professors to innovate in malaria philanthropy.

Philanthropy just got easier and a lot more accessible to the public thanks to the social networking power of the Internet and a ground-breaking partnership between a young British entrepreneur, a global health think tank and an African medical research institute. 

MalariaEngage.org is the brainchild of 25-year-old Harvard student Tom Hadfield, who came to national attention in his native Britain when Soccernet, a website he developed as a high school student in his bedroom, was sold at age 17 to ESPN for $40 million. 

Debuted April 20 to offer individuals a meaningful way to mark World Malaria Day (Friday, April 25), its creators hope www.MalariaEngage.org will do for African research what YouTube did for sharing videos and what eBay did for trading things? open it up in a creative and engaging way to the vast global community through the World Wide Web.  

(Harare) - Zimbabwean election officials are expected on Saturday to begin a partial recount of votes from the March 29 elections despite opposition protests and widespread fears the political stalemate could erupt in violence.

The recount in 23 of 210 constituencies could overturn the results of the parliamentary election, which showed President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF losing its majority to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for the first time.  Results of the presidential election have not been released. 

Zimbabwe's electoral commission has said some foreign observers will be allowed to monitor the recount, which has aroused widespread concerns in the West that Mugabe's government is planning to rig the outcome.

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