{"id":224899,"date":"2026-05-10T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224899"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:55:07","slug":"middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224899","title":{"rendered":"Middle East conflict exposes Africa\u2019s fossil fuel risks &#038; the case for clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deepening crisis in the Middle East could send economic shockwaves across sub-Saharan Africa, raising fuel costs, food prices and inflation across the region, according to a new analysis by energy consultancy Zero Carbon Analytics. Roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2026\/03\/middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deepening crisis in the Middle East could send economic shockwaves across sub-Saharan Africa, raising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy.png",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy.png",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy.png",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy.png",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy.png",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy.png",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy.png",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224899-middle-east-conflict-exposes-africas-fossil-fuel-risks-the-case-for-clean-energy-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}