Rising fuel prices have triggered deadly protests in Kenya and forced countries across Africa to take emergency measures, as a deepening energy crisis drives severe disruption across the continent.
Diesel and petrol prices at the pump have surged in recent weeks, as the economic shock of the war in the Middle East starts to reach consumers across sub-Saharan Africa.
The impact of the war on many African economies was initially blunted by government fuel subsidies and regulated prices that lag the wholesale market by a month. But states have been forced to pass on more fuel price hikes as they can no longer afford the subsidy bill.
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