Despite months of calm in the country, darkness and extreme darkness still surround entire neighborhoods in Libya due to random power outages. Ten years, amid inability to find solutions to it, despite a political breakthrough that began a while ago.
While electric generators are spreading in the streets of the capital, Tripoli, especially among shops.
And it escalates Its unrelenting noise, with power outages several times a day for a total of about 12 hours during the summer.
While the sharp-smelling gray smoke invades its streets at night. While entire neighborhoods sink into darkness at nightfall.
“Nothing has changed”
It seems to Libyans who have suffered both since the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011 due to the spread of chaos in the country, as if nothing had changed despite the advent of a new government, with the continued loss of electricity, inflation and insecurity.
Although the country is rich in energy resources, and its population is about seven million , not big on sharing the profits of Africa’s most abundant reserves, most of which seem deprived, with aging infrastructures and a collapsing economy.
Promises Gone with the Wind
Commenting on the living conditions, 25-year-old university student Nader Al-Naas told AFP, “Nothing The promises made by successive governments were not respected.”
The grocer Osama Al-Dalah did not hide his discontent, saying, “These interruptions exhaust us, affect us psychologically and cause us losses. We need a radical solution.” Also, Al-Mikani confirmed Ki Ali Al-Awami said his business was disrupted due to the power outage, saying, “I’ve been working in this car for a week.” Then he added, “We are now living in a big prison, so is what is required of us to emigrate and leave the country?”
From the west of the country to the east, the situation is similar, and there is no change, but rather a deterioration in the economic and living situation, while the new authority makes faltering promises so far!
