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The suffering of residents in Abyan and Lahj continues to escalate as the electricity outage enters its second month, amid the absence of any government action to ease the impact of what locals have described as a “public-service catastrophe.”
Local residents confirm that the two provinces have been in complete darkness for more than 30 days without the slightest glimmer of light, despite increasing daily needs and changing weather conditions. They point out that the situation has become unbearable.
For his part, the director of Abyan Electricity, Mahmoud Makish, explained on Monday that the suspension of service is due to the lack of diesel fuel, which caused power-generation stations to go completely offline. He confirmed that the corporation has become unable even to cover employee salaries due to declining revenues.
Makish noted that the weakened operation of the grid has made it vulnerable to theft, adding that citizens make daily calls asking when power will return, but the absence of fuel makes the answer “impossible.”
The corporation is currently operating only the emergency line to supply water wells and hospitals, while the fuel crisis shows no signs of resolution.
Residents expressed unprecedented anger at the internationally recognized Yemeni government’s neglect of their conditions, considering the continued outage evidence of the failure of the relevant authorities to provide even the bare minimum of services. They stressed that the situation has become a real crisis threatening their daily lives and health, calling for urgent measures to end their ongoing suffering.
