South African "Engineering News": Low-energy reactors poised for commercialisation?

Today a South-African online journal "Engineering News" published an article on LENR Low-energy reactors poised for commercialisation?.
The author follows that story since few years making some summaries of the situation.
He seems to trust more Brillouin and SRI to succeed in LENR development. Good question, as Brillouin seems to be supported by US government via DoD and SRI.

his previous article on LENR was this 2013 July : Interest in LENR device resurges as independent report is released
The previous and initial article in Feb 2012 questioned: Is low-energy nuclear reaction new physics or an old scam? was quite open.

My question is whether Africa, and South Africa among the most developed of Sub-Saharan countries, will participate LENR revolution...
Sure Europe, North-America, China, Japan are participating... but what about Africa, South-America, Australia, ASEAN, who don't even host any initiative today.

I feel that LENR may develop in those intermediate countries, with some local competence, but weak resources.
I see similar future for Indonesia, who also hoped to install a nuclear powerplant. Locals are afraid of seismic catastrophes, but I'm more afraid of corruption and even worse on lack of quality control and safety culture (which requires both freedom to whistle and rigor to respect law).
LENR is much easier to implement in intermediate countries like south Africa or Indonesia, where people focus on real risk and opportunities, despite governance and organizational challenges.