Experiencing a fuel shortage is unusual for Nigeriens. An oil-rich country, its first refinery was built in 2011. Today, due to a number of factors, it is unable to meet the national demand ...

Niger -- which produces oil but refines only a small amount of it -- has suffered fuel shortages in the past but not to the current extent. The Soraz refinery in Zinder is the only one in the country.

Nigeriens are struggling to find gas stations which are open, and where stations are open, residents face long queues amid an unprecedented shortage of Super fuel, the most widely used gas in this ...

Uruguay's Energy Minister Elisa Facio said Monday that there would be no fuel shortage in the South American country despite a stoppage in the distribution chain. ”Unfortunately we did not reach ...

Cecha also noted that petrol stations ”do not interfere in the lack of adequate fuel supply“ and that the shortage problems ”have been deepening lately,“ as ”what began with scattered ...