DESERTEC-Africa is an independent organization that has set itself a mission to get the African continent take advantage of what it has in abundance: - sun energy falling as sunlight on the African deserts to produce what it is in dire need of: - electricity, by means of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), as well as harness wind energy along its coastal regions. 
There is enough sunlight falling on Africa's deserts to power not only Africa and Europe but the whole world also. Therefore, if Africa would harvest just a fraction of solar energy on its deserts and arid sahel region, it would not only meet its immediate acute energy needs but also have enough energy to have  its vast mineral resources processed locally, thereby triggering new high level of investment and employment opportunities in the continent.