{"id":37335,"date":"2026-06-17T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37335"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:26:25","slug":"africa-makes-major-electricity-access-gains","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/africa-makes-major-electricity-access-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa makes major electricity access gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The World Bank says Africa is making significant progress in expanding access to electricity, with 50 million people already connected under the Mission 300 initiative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa (SA) is hosting the Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town, Western Cape Province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Addressing delegates World Bank Group President Ajay Banga said the continent is now connecting people to power at nearly twice the rate seen before the programme began.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He credited African governments, development partners and private investors for driving reforms and investments aimed at providing electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36966,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-37335","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Africa is making significant progress in expanding access to electricity","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37336,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37335\/revisions\/37336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}