Libya power cuts push small businesses and weary citizens to brink

TRIPOLI: Power cuts have been a fact of life for years for Naseem Al-Akkari, who owns a chain of restaurants in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. But it was not until this summer’s heatwaves that they began posing an existential threat to his business, inflicting an estimated $40,000 in losses in just a few months. “The generator has to run to prevent...