{"id":14459,"date":"2026-04-13T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/africa-and-the-middle-east-crisis-better-prepared-but-not-insulated\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:54:05","slug":"africa-and-the-middle-east-crisis-better-prepared-but-not-insulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/africa-and-the-middle-east-crisis-better-prepared-but-not-insulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa and the Middle East Crisis &#8211; Better Prepared, but Not Insulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The timing couldn&#8217;t be worse for a continent just beginning to recover from two recent global shocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Africa is again staring down the barrel of an external shock. The Middle East crisis marks the third major supply disruption in less than a decade, following COVID-19 and the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict. In each case, an external trigger exposes structural vulnerabilities, and economies plunge into distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The timing couldn&#8217;t be worse. Many African economies have spent the past two years rebuilding buffers badly eroded during the 2022 shock. Continent-wide, fiscal consolidation has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130258.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The timing couldn&#8217;t be worse for a continent just beginning to recover from two recent global shocks. Africa is again staring down&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3454,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}