2. Africa’s Need for Regional Bioenergy Markets

3. Result: Africa Fails to Develop

4. Less Than 4% is Intra-African Trade

5. Result: Africa Fails to Develop “ Today’s haphazard, overlapping regional integration is proving largely ineffective, and this severely hampers African countries’ ability to compete in international markets.” — Mo Ibrahim

6. Result: Africa Fails to Develop But bioenergy doesn’t have to follow the same path…

10. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Source: US Energy Information Administration 2007

11. Source: US Energy Information Administration 2007 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

12. Total Annual Foreign Exchange Savings: US$301 million Source: US Energy Information Administration 2007 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

13. East African Community Source: US Energy Information Administration 2008

14. East African Community Source: US Energy Information Administration 2008

15. East African Community Total Annual Foreign Exchange Savings: US$334.7 million Source: US Energy Information Administration 2008

16. Southern African Development Community Source: US Energy Information Administration 2008

17. Southern African Development Community Source: US Energy Information Administration 2008

18. Southern African Development Community Without SA: US$444.57 million Total Annual Foreign Exchange Savings: US$1.415 billion Source: US Energy Information Administration 2008

19. UK-Brazil Study on Southern African Biofuels

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