[1]A Night in Madagascar without electricity by Augustin- CC-BY-2.0
There are about 105 cities listed [2] in all of Madagascar. The Minister of Energy Fienena Richard recently announced that 80 cities of Madagascar are curently deprived of electricity [3] because JIRAMA, the public company in charge of providing electricity across the territory is running short on fuel. As a result, JIRAMA has to pick and choose the cities that will receive electricity. That is close to 75% of all cities in the nation, a ratio that would be unfathomable in most countries of the world. The JIRAMA company is also plagued by the threat of a general strike [4] from employees who demand more safety measures against angry customers. One those unhappy customers was the Malagasy president himself who threatened to sue the company [5] after an electrical malfunction at his home. Blogger Andriamihaja in Tulear (South East of Madagascar) wrote a humorous open letter [6] to the company picturing life without power outage in his town.