“I told myself, ‘no-one is doing anything about this’.”
Growing up in Chad’s capital N’Djamena, Youssouf Ali Mbodou took his books into the streets at night to study during power cuts which were frequent and lasted for weeks.
Electricity reaches about 10% of people in Chad, according to the World Bank, ranking it second to last in the world in terms of a reliable supply and coverage. A landlocked country in the middle of Africa, Chad produces oil and imports everything from soap to rice to shoes. At a fundraising gala on the final evening, young people performed slam poetry about entrepreneurship and Miss Chad handed out medals to “ambassadors” in the field.
Chad ranks 181 out of 190 nations on the World Bank’s ease of doing business index this year, up from last place in 2014.
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