Residents of the Teyou area said repeated complaints had failed to produce a solution. Shops and other electricity-dependent activities were affected, while households struggled to preserve food. The cause of the prolonged outage and a restoration timetable remained unclear.
At the opposition protest, coalition leader Mohamed Lemine Ould Sidi Maouloud alleged losses of medicines and property and criticised the lack of accountability over fires at electrical installations. Those claims were the coalition’s allegations.
Somelec also has a separate maintenance programme running from 30 October to 1 November in parts of Tevragh Zeina, Ksar, Dar Naïm and Carrefour. Its announced interruptions fall between 08:00 and 17:00, with a maximum of four hours per affected zone.