By Mohammad R. Mhawish
My phone battery is on 30%. My laptop died a few days ago. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to keep communicating with the outside world. I’ve been able to charge my phone until now because someone in the neighbourhood had a generator. For two hours a day he would let people charge their phones on it – he wouldn’t accept any money. Money doesn’t mean anything any more anyway. You can’t buy fuel. Now my neighbour has run out of fuel for his generator.
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