[Ost-news] Africa Faces Another Rising Expense: Fuel

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Africa Faces Another Rising Expense: Fuel  
By LYDIA POLGREEN  
July 12, 2008

DAKAR, Senegal — In the United States, where the median household  
income is about $48,000, $4-a-gallon gas is painful.

In Nigeria, most of whose 140 million citizens live on less than $2 a  
day despite their country's status as the world's eighth largest oil  
exporter, $5.50-a-gallon diesel is excruciating.

Daniel Idoko runs a small business center in Abuja, Nigeria's capital,  
and because the country's electricity supply is so balky, he relies on

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