Africa
Libyans at boiling point amid summer power cuts
4 years agoMahmud Aguil sits with his children on a porch at his home in Libya's capital Tripoli, on July 5, 2022. - Aguil, 48, who has a comfortable house in central Tripoli, has been forced to sleep with his two children in the back of his air-conditioned van amid enduring power cuts of up to 18 hours a day, the latest trial for Libyans after a decade of persistent insecurity, fuel shortages, crumbling infrastructure and economic woes since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP)
Mahmud Aguil has a comfortable house in Libya's capital Tripoli, but chronic power outages in the war-battered country and roasting summer heat now force him to sleep in his air-conditioned van.