I won’t do another post on the power for a while, but suffice it say, getting power AND internet has been quite a chore for the past few days. Because the power is totally unreliable now, and everyone’s generators have now been running for several days, the NGOs are beginning to run out of fuel for them or they’re simply breaking down.
There are two fuel barges scheduled to arrive in Bangui later this week (we’ll see if that happens). However, they were both scheduled to arrive long before the breakdown of power station and their delivery likely won’t last the next three weeks. It’s not clear whether or not more is scheduled to arrive, but the rumor is that Total (the fuel provider) is doing what it can to get supplies here.
In the mean time, NGOs are having to act as make-shift supply lines, carrying all the fuel that they intend to use out into the field with them — being unable to count on any supplies being available outside of the capital.
So, for now, we’ve been driving around Bangui, trying to find power and internet wherever it may be. And we wait for the whole house of cards to come crashing down in the near future.
