Activists say fossil fuel interests have declared 'war on Africa's sustainable future'

As the fossil fuel industry gathered in Cape Town for Tuesday's start of Africa Energy Week, African climate campaigners took to the streets and social media to reject a ploy to use the continent's development and energy crises as a pretext for accelerating oil and gas extraction.

Activists with Extinction Rebellion Cape Town rallied Tuesday outside one of the conference's venues to demand investment in renewable energy and a transition from a carbon-based economy.

... "Collusion by European and African energy elites to continue colonizing the continent with dirty energy infrastructure will saddle Africa with dangerous projects that it doesn't need, entrench the energy apartheid facing millions of Africans, and risk tipping Africa and the world into catastrophic climate disruption," argued Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe, campaigns lead for Power Shift Africa.