‘This petrol station is my home now’: Malawi’s fuel crisis forces desperate drivers to queue for days
Shortages caused by the country’s lack of hard currency have escalated into a national emergency, with drivers waiting for a fuel tanker that may never arriveFrom the driver’s seat of his rusted minibus, Sido Sombeja stares out at a stationary sea of rear lights stretching for almost a mile down the road. It is 3am in Zomba, the old capital of Malawi, and cold night air comes through the cracked windscreen. For eight consecutive days and nights, the 40-year-old father of four has lived out of this vehicle, waiting for a fuel tanker that may never arrive.Sombeja chews on a cold piece of fried m
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