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Ghana plunged into darkness as country faces economic woes
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“Limited gas supply” at a power installation in Tema, located east of the Ghanian capital, Accra, has led to “a supply gap of 550MW at peak time,” the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) said of the power outages in a statement Thursday evening.
The West African nation has battled power outages, known locally as “dumsor” for many years.
“Ghana’s energy supply requires urgent, purposeful and significant investment to undo the current precarious situation the country finds itself,” said research and policy think tank, Centre for Socioeconomic Studies (CSS).
A CSS study released in June said, “available data shows the country’s current energy provision is critically unhealthy and tottering towards a power crisis” and also “faces a dire energy situation from 2023 going into the near future.”
This year, Ghana has grappled with economic shocks ranging from high inflation, a plummeting local currency, mounting debts, and a federal budget “weakened by high energy sector costs” amid “low public revenues,” according to the World Bank.
The high cost of living has triggered a series of anti-government protests and fueled public calls for the removal of the country’s central bank chair over alleged economic mismanagement.
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