(26 Mar 2025)
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Bamako, Mali – 12 February 2025
1. Various of Bourama Doumbia in his phone repair shop
2. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Bourama Doumbia, phone repairer:
“Before (last year) we could go for 38 hours without power, but now we have power for a certain period of the day and I organise myself so that I can get my work done before the power goes off again. At the moment there are fewer power cuts than last year, but as far as customers are concerned, there are very few at the moment.”
3. Empty waiting room at Doumbia’s phone repair shop
4. Wide of a crossroads at the Bamako market
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Dakar, Senegal – 14 February 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Beverly Ochieng, Analyst at Control Risks, global specialist risk consultancy:
“Population demands have increased between 4 to 10% and the current energy provider EDM (Malian electricity company) has not been able to meet that gap because they do not have the technology or the replacement of parts of generators to m eet the energy needs and also being able to afford the fuel to supply generators that would then give electricity to Malian populations.”
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Karan, Mali – 6 February 2025
6. Various of mini solar power plant
7. Yacouba Coulibaly, mini solar power plant manager, cleaning a solar panel
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Yacouba Coulibaly, manager of the mini solar power plant of Karan:
“There are 114 (solar) panels that supply electricity to 72 batteries, which have a capacity of 1,650 amps and store 18 kW, which are supplied to the village.”
9. Wide of equipment for the conversion of solar energy into usable energy in the village
10. Various of Coulibaly showing the batteries which store the solar energy
11. Pan of electricity cable which is used to provide electricity for the village
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Bamako, Mali – 14 February 2025
12. Brice Bado, marketing manager, working with a colleague
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Brice Bado, marketing manager at We Light:
“We started gradually with 40 customers (in 2021) and now have more than 200 customers, directly impacting more than 2,000 people. Customers can choose to buy single-phase meters for family use or three-phase meters for the entrepreneurs, especially bakers and welders.”
13. Various of phone screen showing how customers can buy electricity via mobile money
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Karan, Mali – 6 February 2025
14. Various of bread baking
15. Samba Diakité, baker, supervising the bread in his bakery
16. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Samba Diakité, baker at Karan:
“We used to use 60 liters (of diesel) (24 gallons0 a day (for the engine), but now that there is electricity, we often buy 30 litters (a day) and for the rest of the work we use 10,000 CFA francs ($16) to put in the electricity meter. My wish is to stop using the generator and work only with electricity.”
17.Wide of traffic next to a pole carrying multiple electricity cables to houses or other poles in town
STORYLINE:
Sitting behind his telephone repair table in Bamako’s Grand Marché, Bourama Doumbia waits impatiently for customers to arrive.
A year ago, his phone repair shop was packed at all hours of the working day, but the power cuts in the Malian capital have disrupted his business, which is now at a standstill.
“Before (last year) we could go for 38 hours without power, but now we have power for a certain period of the day, and I organise myself so that I can get my work done before the power goes off again," he said.
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