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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia \u2014 First Lady, Rachel Ruto, has called for urgent, decisive action to close Africa’s $4 billion annual financing gap for clean cooking, describing it as “the smartest investment we can make in humanity.”<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking during a high-level side event at the Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa, the First Lady warned that nearly one billion people in sub-Saharan Africa still rely on firewood and charcoal, exposing families to toxic smoke that claims over 800,000 lives…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Addis Ababa, Ethiopia \u2014 First Lady, Rachel Ruto, has called for urgent, decisive action to close Africa’s $4 billion annual financing gap for clean cooking, describing it as “the smartest investment we can make in humanity.” Speaking during a high-level side event at the Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa, the First Lady warned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611141:61d0c9194e33eb4330dec41d9939005c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6287,10945,6239,13343,430,4381,257,11987,41816,11878,11238,254,5757],"class_list":["post-207035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-clean","tag-climate","tag-cooking","tag-kenya-news","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-prioritize","tag-rachel","tag-rallies","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611141:61d0c9194e33eb4330dec41d9939005c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207035","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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