At least once a day, the hum of every fan, air conditioner and fridge across Egypt goes quiet. The lights go out and an expletive is muttered or hurled into the quickly-heating air.Lifts stop, errands are cancelled and meetings delayed for as long as the power stays out -- hopefully an hour or two, ...
"We will be able to end power outages entirely for the summer by the third week of July," Madbouly said, signalling that the outages would resume in the fall.
Entirely for the summer? A few weeks before it ends?..