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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of national disaster in an attempt to tackle the severe electricity crisis that stalling daily life and the economy of the continent’s largest industrial power. IMAGES
Partisans of the South African main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), take to the streets to protest a prolonged energy crisis causing record power cuts in South Africa. Frequent blackouts, known as load-shedding, have burdened the country for years, with state-owned energy firm Eskom failing to keep pace with demand and maintain its ageing coal power infrastructure. IMAGES
EU finance ministers meet in Luxembourg for the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN), as Europe finds itself in the midst of an energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
Eurozone finance ministers meet in Luxembourg to discuss the surge in energy prices. Europe is struggling with historically high prices as it faces an early autumn cold snap and a coming winter almost certainly to be endured without crucial Russian gas supplies because of the war in Ukraine. IMAGES
Demonstrators aligned with the group 'Don't Pay UK' gather outside London's King's Cross Station to burn mock bills in protest at the rising cost of energy. Chants of 'Can't pay, won't pay, we say don't pay' ring out, reflecting the group's advocacy of withholding payment of energy bills while prices remain at their current level. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron inaugurates the very first of a series of offshore wind farms, off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), the deployment of which he intends to accelerate in the face of the energy crisis. IMAGES
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