CAIRO — It has been a year since energy and foreign currency crises led Egypt's government to institute planned blackouts known as 'load shedding.'The measures have not been felt equally across the country.In the southern city of Aswan, where temperatures neared 50 degrees Celsius in the shade earlier this month, 'the lights are out for up to four hours a day, and with them the water,' Tarek, a resident of western Aswan, told AFP.
And all this, while we know electricity price hikes are coming.'Electricity prices last rose in January, and the government has signaled it is looking to raise them again this year.This week, as temperatures in Cairo hovered around 40 C, swathes of the capital have experienced additional midnight blackouts for up to two hours — in addition to the existing midday outages.
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