{"id":25783,"date":"2023-02-16T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/02\/16\/nigeria-currency-crisis-protests-break-out-over-cash-shortage\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:02:52","slug":"nigeria-currency-crisis-protests-break-out-over-cash-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/02\/16\/nigeria-currency-crisis-protests-break-out-over-cash-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria currency crisis: Protests break out over cash shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigeria&rsquo;s central bank is continuing its push to update the country&rsquo;s currency, but a shortage has led to a cash crisis. With ATMs short of notes and some businesses refusing to accept old-style bills, frustration is running deep. In Wednesday people protested the move by blocking streets and burning tyres. The protests come just as inflation picked up again in January &#8211; hitting almost 22%. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s correspondent in Lagos Sam Olukoya tells us more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&rsquo;s central bank is continuing its push to update the country&rsquo;s currency, but a shortage has led to a cash crisis. With ATMs short of notes and some businesses refusing to accept old-style bills, frustration is running deep. In Wednesday people protested the move by blocking streets and burning tyres. The protests come just as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-25783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}