The expensive luxury of electricity in Somalia

Mogadishu, Somalia – It is 12.45 pm. The call to prayer is blaring from the loudspeakers atop the minarets of the city’s mosques, and in the Medina neighbourhood of Mogadishu, a lady in a long red jilbab sits with her two daughters in front of her two-bedroom house. It is March, the height of the dry season, and the air is hot and humid. In the family’s living room, the fan which used to offer res

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"City officials told Al Jazeera that the companies operate without a licence and pay no taxes. Customers accuse the electricity companies of charging them any price they want, an accusation the companies deny."