Kinley salmon is the economist africa correspondent. Fuel prices have been rising steeply across Africa. Many millions of businessers rely on generators and need deasl for those generators just to have electricity. Even things like hospitals are worrying about getting drug deliveries if their delivery vans don't have fuel. It's even forcing holiday makers to cancel trips or have very difficult flights home.
POLLS SUGGEST // Polls suggest the country might get its first-ever leftist leader. Whatever the outcome, a fresh outbreak of violent protest may await. Africa’s increasingly crippling fuel shortages can be blamed on more than just higher prices. And reflecting on the life of Lawrence MacEwen, laird of a tiny Scottish island whose austere simplicity he fought to preserve.
For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer