So we will once again be treated to a test of our utility system, a system that has seen more depreciation than new infrastructural investment since 1997, with many transformers 40 or 50 years old.

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The deal was struck under a currently discontinued program of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called ORET, which supported sustainable investment in infrastructural projects in developing countries.

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So extensive is this infrastructural problem that no reasonable amount of Western technology or investment can correct it fully.

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