 And moving outside of Africa, EU chief Ursula van der Leyen has called for cuts to electricity use across the 27 states and windfall taxes on energy firms to tackle high prices. She told the European Parliament that gas and electricity prices had reached record levels and hit all-time highs after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. She called for electricity consumption to be cut at peak hours by at least 5%. But plans for a cap on the price of natural gas, a key Russian export to the EU were put on the back burner. The plan outlined in Strasbourg's target X's revenues with proposals to skim the profits of low-carbon electricity producers and implement a de facto windfall tax on oil, gas and coal sectors. The money raised estimated to be 140 billion euros will go to families and businesses.