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Across Africa, some 600 million people live without consistent power. At a big conference this week in Tanzania, heads of state and officials from the World Bank and the African Development Bank pledged to tackle the problem across the continent. The banks provided nearly $50 billion for a wide variety of projects. Elna Schutz reports from Johannesburg, South Africa.