{"id":6229,"date":"2022-07-20T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/were-not-europes-gas-station-african-climate-advocate-tells-eu"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:42","slug":"were-not-europes-gas-station-african-climate-advocate-tells-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/were-not-europes-gas-station-african-climate-advocate-tells-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re not Europe\u2019s gas station\u2019, African climate advocate tells EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Mohamed-Adow-2-COP-26-UNFCCC-video_1658302667.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A leading advocate for Africa\u2019s renewable energy transition is condemning Germany and Italy for pushing to \u201csaddle\u201d African countries with new fossil fuel infrastructure that will drag down their economies.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>\u201cWe must respond with a firm no, and instead demand that European countries support us in the development of renewable energy systems,\u201d says Mohamed Adow, Director of the Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa.<br\/><br\/>Germany and Italy have been working to secure new gas deals with fossil fuel-rich African countries as part of their strategy to wean themselves from Russian oil. Italy has reached deals with Algeria, Angola, Egypt, and the Republic of the Congo, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2014in his first official trip to the continent\u2014announced in Senegal his intent to pursue energy projects \u201cintensively\u201d. German talks with Senegal leaders have already begun, with Scholz \u201cexpressing willingness to offer technical investments in power plant infrastructure in Senegal,\u201d Adow writes for Project Syndicate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading advocate for Africa\u2019s renewable energy transition is condemning Germany and Italy for pushing to \u201csaddle\u201d African countries with new fossil fuel infrastructure that will drag down their economies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6230,"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-6229","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\/6229","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=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6939,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions\/6939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}