600,000 African women, children die yearly due to lack of access to clean cooking – Adesina 

President of the Africa Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina has said that approximately 600,000 women and children die annually in Africa due to lack of access to clean cooking.

Adesina disclosed this while speaking at the Africa Energy Summit currently going on in Dar Salam, Tanzania.

The 2025 Africa Energy Summit, which is themed: “Mission 300” will take place on Monday and Tuesday, January 27 and 28.

Speaking during a panel session alongside representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Bank, Adesina explained that lack of access to clean cooking sources claims the lives of 300,000 children and 300,000 women annually.

He explained that the deaths are caused by the effect of smoke from the use of firewood or charcoal for cooking rather than clean cooking sources.

“Another thing that is part of the agenda is access to clean cooking for women. Today we have 1.2 billion women in Africa without access to clean cooking and we lose 300,000 kids every single year that…