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Maintenance is however not the single reason to electricity shortages in the country’s large cities. In Antananarivo city, power supply repeatedly fails for a few minutes over the day, without clear explanation. In the other cities, electric power outages have come up to a daily matter of fact, a casual phenomenon which can last several hours in a row. In the past year, Nosy Be island’s population massively went down to the street to protest against power outages. As for Antananarivo city, some of its districts regularly have to suffer voltage drops, and make do with them on a daily basis up to the emergence of an elusive long term solution just as the rest of the population has. In between, people vaguely know what to keep groaning at when domestic robots break down.
Over the last few days, Madagascar’s central big cities’ inhabitants have become acquainted with the electric power outages planed again by the JIRAMA, the national electric energy supplying company. These power shortages are deemed to serve maintenance purposes tackled at the major power plant of Andekaleka located in the east of the capital city, according to the JIRAMA’ says.