{"id":180746,"date":"2024-09-17T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-electricity-in-short-supply-as-zambia-deals-with-drought-driven-energy-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:15:45","slug":"zambia-electricity-in-short-supply-as-zambia-deals-with-drought-driven-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-electricity-in-short-supply-as-zambia-deals-with-drought-driven-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Electricity in Short Supply As Zambia Deals With Drought-Driven Energy Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Lusaka, Zambia \u2014 As Zambia deals with its worst drought in 20 years, businesses and households are going for days without electricity. Experts say the severe energy crisis could worsen Zambia &#8216;s already fragile economy and lead to massive job losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">On an average day, millions of people across the country are enduring up to 21 hours of power cuts, locally known as load shedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Taonga Zulu, a Lusaka resident who runs a family farm business, told VOA that her livelihood has been hurt by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409170017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka, Zambia \u2014 As Zambia deals with its worst drought in 20 years, businesses and households are going for days without electricity. Experts say the severe energy crisis could worsen Zambia &#8216;s already fragile economy and lead to massive job losses. On an average day, millions of people across the country are enduring up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651875:1fd7e8e4758a35d0fca40af146a3359c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,3723,7844,49542,4895,7424,257,5196,254,5236,4709,881],"class_list":["post-180746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-deals","tag-droughtdriven","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-news","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651875:1fd7e8e4758a35d0fca40af146a3359c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}