{"id":230498,"date":"2026-06-04T16:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230498"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:54:46","slug":"whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230498","title":{"rendered":"Whose finger on the switch? The case for energy sovereignty in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy insecurity turns treatable illness into financial crisis. Health resilience depends on energy sovereignty. Health systems cannot function reliably when they depend on volatile global fuel markets&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/thought-leader\/opinion\/2026-05-14-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy insecurity turns treatable illness into financial crisis. Health resilience depends on energy sovereignty. Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230498-whose-finger-on-the-switch-the-case-for-energy-sovereignty-in-africa-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230498","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=230498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}