Issue 001 · 16 Aug 2026
Why I'm building a sourced tracker for Africa's nuclear plans
Only one African country operates a commercial nuclear plant: South Africa. A second, Egypt, is building one. And a growing list of countries — Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Zambia, Ethiopia and others — are actively preparing or exploring.
The problem: there is no neutral, cited, machine-readable place to see it all. Announcements are scattered across government sites, IAEA press releases, and industry media. Following them means refreshing a dozen sources by hand.
So I'm building that place. It's called AfrPowerOS.
How it works
- Every record carries a confidence label — Verified, Inference, Speculation, or Unverified.
- Every fact has a source URL. No exceptions.
- Corrections go in as public pull requests, so the history is auditable.
20 countries, all sourced
The dataset currently covers 20 African countries: Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zambia, Morocco, Algeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Eswatini and DR Congo.
This week in numbers
- 1 country operating a commercial reactor (South Africa)
- 1 under construction (Egypt)
- 7 preparing or announced
- 10 exploring
Why subscribe
Each week I summarize what changed: new records, corrections, methodology updates, and a note on the wider African energy picture. No hype, no ads — just sourced facts you can verify.