{"id":5476,"date":"2023-03-17T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/civil-society-calls-on-african-union-to-foster-fossil-free-future"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:13","slug":"civil-society-calls-on-african-union-to-foster-fossil-free-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/civil-society-calls-on-african-union-to-foster-fossil-free-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil society calls on African Union to foster fossil-free future"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/657880dcd408ac495a5cc888\/dab348f3-75d5-47bb-802f-2c3b5961c582\/gaz_1679040027.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As diplomats and political leaders headed to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for an African Union (AU) summit, civil society groups from the continent argued on February 17 that &#8220;rather than doubling down on the obsolete and dirty energy systems&#8221;, the AU must &#8220;move away from harmful fossil fuels towards a transformed energy system that is clean, renewable, democratic, and actually serves its peoples&#8221;.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>&#8230;Activists, including Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe, campaigns lead for Don&#8217;t Gas Africa, echoed those messages, declaring that \u201cAfrican land is not a gas station. Millions are losing their homes, don&#8217;t \u2211have access to food, have their health threatened, and are slipping into higher levels of extreme poverty because of the fossil fuel industry.&#8221;<br\/><br\/>&#8220;Instead of selling away <a href=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/latest\/Power+Shift+in+the+News\/draft-glasgow-pledge-calls-on-world-to-ditch-coal-quicker-step-up-emissions-cuts-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">fossil fuel<\/a> extraction rights to big multinational companies, African leaders should invest in clean, renewable energies that will directly benefit people across the continent without damaging their health.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As diplomats and political leaders headed to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for an African Union (AU) summit, civil society groups from the continent argued on February 17 that &#8220;rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5477,"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-5476","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\/5476","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}