{"id":5415,"date":"2023-01-17T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/african-countries-are-tapping-their-fossil-fuel-wealth-why-arent-they-getting-rich"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:27","slug":"african-countries-are-tapping-their-fossil-fuel-wealth-why-arent-they-getting-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/african-countries-are-tapping-their-fossil-fuel-wealth-why-arent-they-getting-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"African countries are tapping their fossil fuel wealth. Why aren\u2019t they getting rich?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DGA2_167395821628129.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When an American oil company discovered a massive natural gas reserve off the coast of Mozambique in early 2010, the country appeared poised for a brighter future.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;We got to a point where climate activists were labeled as anti-development,\u201d Dean Bhebhe, Power Shift Africa&#8217;s campaigns lead, told Grist. \u201cOur argument was essentially that Africa has every right to develop, but because of the history of \u2018extractivism\u2019 of coal and oil, surely fossil fuel production does not provide the answer to improved socio-economic [conditions] across Africa. Development needs to center human rights.\u201d<br\/><br\/>&#8220;Green financing without also abandoning fossil fuel extraction on public lands is \u201clike being in a bathroom with a tub filling up with water and instead of turning off the tap, you\u2019re like \u2018We\u2019ll buy more mops!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an American oil company discovered a massive natural gas reserve off the coast of Mozambique in early 2010, the country appeared poised for a brighter future. &#8230;&#8221;We got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5416,"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-5415","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\/5415","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=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}