{"id":226180,"date":"2025-03-14T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/600-million-africans-lack-reliable-access-to-electricity-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T06:00:19","slug":"600-million-africans-lack-reliable-access-to-electricity-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/600-million-africans-lack-reliable-access-to-electricity-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"600 million Africans lack reliable access to electricity | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/sTjDtbdLXeo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"600 million Africans lack reliable access to electricity | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTjDtbdLXeo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The new Trump administration says African nations must be free to harness their own energy resources and should ignore previous pushes to get the Continent to transition from fossil fuels. 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