Living and working around power cuts in Mali

Frequent power cuts make life difficult for residents of Bamako in Mali. They don’t just make day to day living difficult, but also affect the economy, making it hard for people to earn a living. Baco Djicoroni, a district of the capital Bamako, suffers outages that usually last at least two hours and occasionally all night.

There is no electricity for a fan to freshen the torpid air, for a refrigerator to keep food and drinks cool or even for a charger to power up a dead phone. Mali is one of the poorest and hottest countries in the world. Around half of nearly 22 million population have no proper access to electricity, according to the World Bank.