In 2020 Raqqa will have electricity again

RAQQA – The wall of white ‘cells’ is shining white. Abu Majid (header picture) pulls open doors of the small boxes behind which wires are hidden. The ‘cells’ are crucial parts of power plant number 4 in the city centre of Raqqa in the north of Syria. They arrived two weeks ago and he and his colleagues installed them immediately, of course. It can’t be long now before no less than 65% of the city will have electricity again.

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