{
  "id": 17794602,
  "title": "Africa: Why Keeping Africa's Workers Cool Is An Economic Imperative",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/africa-why-keeping-africas-workers-cool-is-an-economic-imperative",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-02T11:20:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica",
    "slug": "allafrica",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202611020347.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "[InfoWire] Extreme heat is increasingly affecting productivity and incomes across Africa, particularly among workers in the informal economy. New evidence from Nigeria, Ghana and India suggests that simple, electricity-free cooling technologies could help reduce these losses. However, making these solutions affordable for the workers who need them most remains a major challenge.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}