Sirkamal/Somalia-Electricity-Assessment

# Somalia Electricity Assessment I looked at Somalia's electricity sector using public data. The picture is not good. ## What the data shows **Access is split.** Urban areas have about 80% coverage. Rural and nomadic communities are far behind. The national average of 61.9% hides that gap. **Diesel still rules.** In 2013, diesel made up nearly all generation capacity. By 2022, it's still around 75%. Solar has grown but only to 12%. Too slow to replace diesel any time soon. **Tariffs are unfair.** In Mogadishu you pay $0.36/kWh. In Galmudug or Hirshabelle it's $1.00/kWh – nearly triple. That's not a national market; it's expensive islands of power. **Consumption is the lowest in East Africa.** Somalia uses 217 kWh per person per year. Kenya uses 1,953. That's a nine‑fold gap. You cannot run factories, schools, or hospitals with that little electricity. **Clean cooking is almost nowhere.** Only 3.8% of people had access to clean cooking fuels in 2021 (up from 2.4% in 2017). At this rate, universal access would take centuries. Most people still burn wood or charcoal indoors – a health crisis. ## Files in this repo - `notebook/` – the Jupyter notebook with all the cleaning and analysis. - `Figures/` – the charts (access, generation mix, tariff comparison, consumption per capita, clean cooking trend). - `Data/` – the original Excel files. ## What this is for This project applies data analysis and visualization to Somalia's electricity sector assessment, produced as part of my work at the National Economic Council ## About me I'm Kamal Mohamed (sirkamal). I build decision‑focused forecasts and audit data for policy and development work. I don't trust numbers until I question where they came from and who is missing.