{"id":5384,"date":"2022-10-25T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/activists-say-fossil-fuel-interests-have-declared-war-on-africas-sustainable-future"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:03","slug":"activists-say-fossil-fuel-interests-have-declared-war-on-africas-sustainable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/activists-say-fossil-fuel-interests-have-declared-war-on-africas-sustainable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists say fossil fuel interests have declared &#8216;war on Africa&#8217;s sustainable future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AEW6_1666701333.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the fossil fuel industry gathered in Cape Town for Tuesday&#8217;s start of Africa Energy Week, African climate campaigners took to the streets and social media to reject a ploy to use the continent&#8217;s development and energy crises as a pretext for accelerating oil and gas extraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Activists with Extinction Rebellion Cape Town rallied Tuesday outside one of the conference&#8217;s venues to demand investment in renewable energy and a transition from a carbon-based economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; &#8220;Collusion by European and African energy elites to continue colonizing the continent with dirty energy infrastructure will saddle Africa with dangerous projects that it doesn&#8217;t need, entrench the energy apartheid facing millions of Africans, and risk tipping Africa and the world into catastrophic climate disruption,&#8221; argued Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe, campaigns lead for Power Shift Africa.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the fossil fuel industry gathered in Cape Town for Tuesday&#8217;s start of Africa Energy Week, African climate campaigners took to the streets and social media to reject a ploy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6892,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/6892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}