{"id":5570,"date":"2023-01-17T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/europes-dash-for-gas-presents-pitfalls-for-africa"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:29","slug":"europes-dash-for-gas-presents-pitfalls-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/europes-dash-for-gas-presents-pitfalls-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s dash for gas presents pitfalls for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot2023-01-17153224_1673958758.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of the knock-on effects of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is that European countries have embarked on a \u2018dash for gas\u2019 to find alternatives to Russian energy supplies.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>A flurry of deals has ensued with several African States being enticed by the prospect of lucrative energy contracts.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cAfrican countries\u2019 plight to help satisfy Europe\u2019s dash for gas is a dangerous and short-sighted vision fuelled by a capitalist utopian dream that has no place in Africa\u2019s energy future,\u201d Dean Bhebhe, the Co-Facilitator of\u00a0Don\u2019t Gas Africa, a network of African-led civil society organisations that produced the report, told IPS.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the knock-on effects of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is that European countries have embarked on a \u2018dash for gas\u2019 to find alternatives to Russian energy supplies. A flurry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5571,"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-5570","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\/5570","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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}