How a 1,200-person village in Senegal traded diesel generators for solar power

How a 1,200-person village in Senegal traded diesel generators for solar power

On the southern border of Senegal lies a small village called Keur Niangane. The roughly 1,200 residents of this village reside in a desert zone, hours away from the capital of Dakar. This village is north of the intestine-shaped carve-out country of the Republic of the Gambia and the mouth of its twisty river that leads out to the sea.  Here, electricity has historically been a challenge–until recently, that is. Through a partnership between Ch…