NAWEC

Gambian utility NAWEC has returned to profit after cutting costs by about 42 percent, drawing Guinean hydropower through the regional grid instead of burning fuel.

Gambia’s main opposition party has declared the country’s electricity crisis a national emergency, saying millions of dalasis are being lost daily as outages worsen.

A Gambian civil society group has given the government and NAWEC until June 19 to fix the country’s worsening power crisis or face mass protests.