{"id":18039,"date":"2026-07-20T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/un-power-shortages-afghan-cities-solar-energy-need\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:00:30","slug":"un-power-shortages-afghan-cities-solar-energy-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/un-power-shortages-afghan-cities-solar-energy-need\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Reports Power Shortages in Afghan Cities Fueling Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has reported that most cities in Afghanistan are facing power shortages, a situation disrupting daily family life, economic activities, and the education of young people.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, July 20, UN-Habitat stated on its X page that persistent power outages have caused serious difficulties for families, harmed businesses, and prevented youth from attending to their studies during evening hours.<\/p>\n<p>UN-Habitat emphasized that investing in renewable energy, particularly solar power, is essential for building resilient and sustainable cities in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also released an image of a clinic equipped with a solar energy system, constructed with the support of the Afghanistan Trust Fund (STFA) and UN-Habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-Habitat highlights power shortages across Afghan cities, urging solar energy investments to support families, businesses, and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}