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Lagos Businesses Battle Mounting Costs as Fuel Prices Climb

Nigeria’s commercial capital is feeling the squeeze of a fuel crisis that has reached far beyond its shores. In Lagos, where thousands of small and medium-sized businesses depend on diesel-powered generators to keep their doors open, the recent surge in fuel prices is testing the resilience of entrepreneurs already accustomed to tough operating conditions. A […]

One Year After Load Shedding Ended, South Africa Battles a New Electricity Crisis

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Twelve months ago, South Africans breathed a cautious sigh of relief as the last episode of load sheddingu2014planned power cuts that could extend beyond 12 hours a dayu2014ended on May 15th, 2025. Today, while the national grid is demonstrably more stable, a new and in some ways more intractable problem has taken its place: widespread

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