{"id":189884,"date":"2025-01-28T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cooking-up-success-solar-kitchen-initiative-aims-to-expand-access-to-clean-energy-in-angola\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:42:20","slug":"angola-cooking-up-success-solar-kitchen-initiative-aims-to-expand-access-to-clean-energy-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cooking-up-success-solar-kitchen-initiative-aims-to-expand-access-to-clean-energy-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Cooking Up Success &#8211; Solar Kitchen Initiative Aims to Expand Access to Clean Energy in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Access to energy is essential for sustainable development, but for many rural communities, it&#8217;s still out of reach. In Angola, according to the 2019-2020 agricultural census, most rural villages <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/angola\/blog\/empowering-unlit-corners-unveiling-energy-challenge-rural-angola-part-1\" rel=\"noopener\">lack access to electricity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Over 83 percent of villages have no electricity at all, while 11 percent rely on private generators. These numbers highlight the urgent need for better energy solutions to support rural communities and boost their development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Hence, earlier this year, three teams from UNDP&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280437.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to energy is essential for sustainable development, but for many rural communities, it&#8217;s still out of reach. In Angola, according to the 2019-2020 agricultural census, most rural villages lack access to electricity. Over 83 percent of villages have no electricity at all, while 11 percent rely on private generators. These numbers highlight the urgent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[6450,258,256,14488,3941,4263,10945,13343,7424,9873,9890,32460,257,4631,254,12051],"class_list":["post-189884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aims","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-clean","tag-cooking","tag-energy","tag-expand","tag-initiative","tag-kitchen","tag-news","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-success"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189884","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=189884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}