Living in the dark in rural Nigeria
By DW
16 December 2018 |
6:10 am
The lack of electricity is pervasive in rural Nigeria, where 90 million people live entirely off the grid. DW's Zaharaddeen Umar asked people in one village in far northern Katsina State how they get by in the dark.
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