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India: City reels under LPG shortage

Owing to the relocation of a supply depot from Nabha to Jalandhar, the city is reeling under acute shortage of LPG. According to reliable sources, “Earlier, a majority of LPG agencies used to get supply from the bottling plant at Bhawanigarh Road in Nabha. But since the the supply has been shifted from Nabha to Jalandhar, it has affected the regular supply of LPG with backlog spreading from 10 to 15 days.”

Nepal: 9-hr a day power cut

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has imposed a whopping nine hours a day load-shedding from Sunday.

Earlier, there was eight hours a day load-shedding for five days and seven hours a day for two days in a week.

The power cut hours have been increased as hydropower projects are generating less electricity due to receding water levels in the rivers. All the hydropower projects in the country -- except Kulekhani -- are built on run-of-river model.

Pakistan: Pakistanis freeze in cold

Sagheerullah Khan huddles before a small fire outside his shop in northwest Pakistan, struggling to stay warm and keep his business alive despite five days without electricity.

Other shopkeepers join him and gather around the flames in the poor Badhber neighbourhood on the outskirts of northwest capital Peshawar, lamenting crushing power outages and gas shortages that have plunged them back in time.

"Long power cuts and a lack of natural gas have made life miserable for us during the extremely cold season," Khan tells AFP as he sets the flame of his ageing kerosene lamp to try and light up the pitch-black night.

Venezuela: Venezuela oil output unhurt by power cuts - govt

Businesses and homes are being hit by rolling blackouts aimed at sharply reducing power consumption. The hydroelectricity-dependent country is suffering a severe drought caused by the EL Nino weather anomaly.

"Production has not been affected at all, neither has refining or upgrading," Ramirez said late on Friday.

Some of Venezuela's oil is a tar-like crude that has to upgraded to a lighter liquid before it can be exported.

South Africa:

The electricity woes the city has faced over the past few days are the legacy of years of neglect of the city's infrastructure as a result of competing needs after Msunduzi Municipality became responsible for supplying services to extended areas.

Phil Mashoko, deputy municipal manager for infrastructure services, said yesterday that competing needs had resulted in a shortage of funds for maintenance in years gone by.

Tanzania: Dar faces eight-hour power cuts

Dar es Salaam residents will be without power for up to eight hours a day in a fresh round of rationing announced by Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) yesterday.

The company said in an unsigned statement that power would be switched off from 10am to 2pm and 6pm to 10pm daily, adding that details on the rationing would be released today.

Uganda: Uganda Business News: Uganda to solve fuel transportation problem

The fuel shortage in Uganda due to instabilities in Kenya are expected to stop by May next year if the government manages to complete the Eldoret-Kampala oil pipeline project.

The project being handled by TamOil East Africa will see Uganda bound fuel flowing from Eldorect in Kenya to the Jinja fuel depot and later to a storage and distribution depot in Kampala.