Power outages hit Adamawa and the East regions

Like other parts of the country, East and Adamawa face the load shedding phenomenon. The information is contained in La Nouvelle Expression (LNE) of October 8, 2015: "These two regions are the subject of continuous electrical power cuts. A process which paralyzes these parts of the country," reports the newspaper.

In Bertoua, the capital town of the eastern region, Batouri Kadey, Belabo in the Lom and Djerem, no city is immune. The newspaper tells of some inconveniences experienced by the populations. "We are in Batouri, capital of the department of Kadey in the Eastern Region. Michelle (Alias) is a girl who just lost her mother. The body of the latter should be kept in the morgue. Electricity has deserted the city for three days and the generator of the morgue in the corner is down. The family must therefore send the remains to Bertoua, capital of the region, located about 90km from Batouri on a dirt road."

Identical situation, we learn by reading the newspaper, is Meiganga, capital of Mbéré department in the region of Adamawa. On October 3, residents of the city spent the day in the dark. A severe load shedding according to an economic operator interviewed by LNE. "Before the light goes off, we first had power cut for 6 days. At the slightest rain lights are cut," she says.

To work around the problem, people have found a rather original solution. "The race of generators reigns here especially in shops. The city buzzes once there is no electricity," we read in LNE.

The owners of appliances run to the sellers of these generators, not to buy them, but to recharge their cell phones for a few minutes, radios and other electric lamps.

The causes of power cuts are the same, "the age-old problems being those of dilapidated electric poles used by the company in charge of the energy supply in Cameroon, and the supply of hydroelectric power plants", informed LNE.