{"id":6134,"date":"2023-04-14T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/some-protests-were-violently-broken-up"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:03","slug":"some-protests-were-violently-broken-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/some-protests-were-violently-broken-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Some protests were violently broken up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/gasmask_1681460957.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The European Gas Conference (EGC) should have taken place behind closed doors on Monday in a Vienna hotel on the Parkring, but this was prevented by environmental activists.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;We have a colonial history,&#8221; Lorraine Chiponda of Don&#8217;t Gas Africa told APA on the sidelines.\u00a0She spoke of companies that have continually exploited Africa&#8217;s resources, making massive, obscene profits.\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re not Europe&#8217;s gas station,&#8221; added comrade-in-arms Dean Bhebhe from South Africa.\u00a0Resource exploitation has driven inequality across the continent.\u00a0&#8220;The food security of fishing communities in Senegal is at risk because of new gas exploration,&#8221; Bhebhe said, referring to new coastal LNG gas mega-projects in response to falling imports from Russia due to the war of aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Gas Conference (EGC) should have taken place behind closed doors on Monday in a Vienna hotel on the Parkring, but this was prevented by environmental activists. &#8230;&#8221;We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6135,"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":[27,25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-justice","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134","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=6134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6821,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134\/revisions\/6821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6134"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}