{"id":7537,"date":"2026-04-29T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/uae-quits-opec-africa-braces-for-economic-shock-as-oil-prices-surge-past-11\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:34:55","slug":"uae-quits-opec-africa-braces-for-economic-shock-as-oil-prices-surge-past-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/uae-quits-opec-africa-braces-for-economic-shock-as-oil-prices-surge-past-11\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Quits OPEC: Africa Braces for Economic Shock as Oil Prices Surge Past 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 29, 2026 \u2014 The United Arab Emirates has announced it will withdraw from OPEC and OPEC+ effective May 1, ending 60 years of membership and sending shockwaves through already-turbulent global energy markets as Brent crude surges past 11 per barrel.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 2026 \u2014 The United Arab Emirates has announced it will withdraw from OPEC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,830,842,1],"tags":[927,928,926,929,925],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-economy-news","category-news","tag-iran-war","tag-oil-prices","tag-opec","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}