{"id":5421,"date":"2023-03-17T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/african-leaders-cautioned-against-fossil-fuels-at-au-summit"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:14","slug":"african-leaders-cautioned-against-fossil-fuels-at-au-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/african-leaders-cautioned-against-fossil-fuels-at-au-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"African leaders cautioned against fossil fuels at AU summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As the African Union Summit gets underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this weekend, energy transition is expected to top the agenda, even civil society groups caution leaders against fossil-fuel expansion projects on the continent.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>President William Ruto has been spearheading Africa\u2019s climate change agenda at the summit that started on Saturday.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Dean Bhebhe, coordinator Don\u2019t Gas Africa, has argued African leaders at the summit to initiate a process of transparent and meaningful dialogue that will explore ways of investing in clean energy forms instead of \u201cselling away fossil fuel extraction rights to big multinational companies.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the African Union Summit gets underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this weekend, energy transition is expected to top the agenda, even civil society groups caution leaders against fossil-fuel expansion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5422,"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-5421","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\/5421","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=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6833,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/6833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}