things get done when you have connections on the inside so we managed to get a few liters for the weekend). Our rubbish (garbage) hasn't been picked up for 2 weeks because the city has no fuel. I just heard this morning that ambulances haven't been able to transport people from rural health centers -- people are dying and apparently the mortuary is full. So yesterday when a fuel truck brought 8000L of fuel into town, ambulances and other public service vehicles got priority, there were long queues at the filling station with fighting over fuel, and all the diesel was sold out. We went to fill up last night, hoping the queues had shortened but they cars were lined up down the road -- not worth the wait. Hopefully there's more fuel coming. We don't want to have another Zimbabwe scenario... And there is no clear reason for the fuel shortage.Tuesday, November 10, 2009
running on empty
Malawi is in the middle of a nation wide fuel shortage and all transportation is coming to a halt. At EI, we have tanks to hold about 3000L of diesel but they're all dry and our movement is limited and by priority only. Our car ran out of diesel on Friday (but because this is Malawi, 
things get done when you have connections on the inside so we managed to get a few liters for the weekend). Our rubbish (garbage) hasn't been picked up for 2 weeks because the city has no fuel. I just heard this morning that ambulances haven't been able to transport people from rural health centers -- people are dying and apparently the mortuary is full. So yesterday when a fuel truck brought 8000L of fuel into town, ambulances and other public service vehicles got priority, there were long queues at the filling station with fighting over fuel, and all the diesel was sold out. We went to fill up last night, hoping the queues had shortened but they cars were lined up down the road -- not worth the wait. Hopefully there's more fuel coming. We don't want to have another Zimbabwe scenario... And there is no clear reason for the fuel shortage.
things get done when you have connections on the inside so we managed to get a few liters for the weekend). Our rubbish (garbage) hasn't been picked up for 2 weeks because the city has no fuel. I just heard this morning that ambulances haven't been able to transport people from rural health centers -- people are dying and apparently the mortuary is full. So yesterday when a fuel truck brought 8000L of fuel into town, ambulances and other public service vehicles got priority, there were long queues at the filling station with fighting over fuel, and all the diesel was sold out. We went to fill up last night, hoping the queues had shortened but they cars were lined up down the road -- not worth the wait. Hopefully there's more fuel coming. We don't want to have another Zimbabwe scenario... And there is no clear reason for the fuel shortage.
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A bit pessimistic about Malawi aren't you? A shortage of fuel will not turn Malawi into Zimbabwe. Malawi has been relatively peaceful while countries around it descended into chaos and genocide.Talk about lumping African countries into one category.
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