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• India offers Pakistan 5,000MW electricity
  March 28, 2012 - Muhammad Saleh Zaafir - geo.tv
  
  India has formally offered to provide Pakistan with 5,000 megawatt electricity to fulfill its energy requirements on an urgent basis regularly which could be transmitted through Punjab without much delay.
  
  
• ADB loan to help Bangladesh cut energy shortage, reduce poverty
  Aug. 11, 2011 - news.xinhuanet.com
  
  DHAKA, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank is extending a 300 million U.S. dollars energy infrastructure loan to help Bangladesh address critical power shortages which are undermining the economy and slowing poverty reduction efforts, the Manila-based lender said Thursday.
  
  
• Nigeria: 2000 Communities Have No Electricity -Nnaji
  Nov. 4, 2011 - Yunus Abdulhamid - allafrica.com
  
  There are 2000 communities in Nigeria that do not have access to electricity power supply, Minister of Power, Prof Bart Nnaji has said. He described the situation as unacceptable and to remedy it, the federal government was making effort to revive the comatose Rural Electrifications Agency (REA). The agency has been in limbo for two years.
  
  
• Severe power shortage hits three South Asian nations
  Apr 22, 2009 - Xinhua
  
  Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan are facing serious electricity shortage which has severely disrupted their public life and worsened their economic crisis.
  
  

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