{"id":4282,"date":"2019-01-08T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.wi.fh-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:37:47","slug":"africa-needs-electrification-guest-article-in-handelsblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/africa-needs-electrification-guest-article-in-handelsblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa needs electrification: guest article in Handelsblatt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Berlin, 07\/01\/2019:  <\/strong>The electricity shortage heavily thwarts the industrial growth of the African countries. And without industrial growth, the social development is impossible.One solution for the problem of electricity shortage was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/west-africa-regional-electricity-market-by-tony-blair-2018-11\">offered by Tony Blair<\/a> by the end of last year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stefan Liebling, lecturer at our Centre and Chairman of the\u00a0German-African\u00a0Business\u00a0Association, shared another perspective to the problem in his guest article for Handelsblatt from 7<sup>th<\/sup> January 2019:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/politik\/international\/gastkommentar-afrika-muss-elektrifiziert-werden-mit-buergschaften-fuer-die-energieversorger\/23835628.html?ticket=ST-474033-OlcvnmCXJcrhAbcSFvc0-ap1\">Afrika muss elektrifiziert werden \u2013 mit B\u00fcrgschaften f\u00fcr die Energieversorger (in\u00a0German)<\/a><br>(Foto: Bloomberg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/meinung\/gastbeitraege\/gastkommentar-afrika-muss-anschluss-an-die-weltwirtschaft-finden-im-interesse-aller\/23231608.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin, 07\/01\/2019: The electricity shortage heavily thwarts the industrial growth of the African countries. And without industrial growth, the social [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}