Nurse Miriam Konya doesn’t know how her household food pantry would have fared in 2024 were it not for the cheap, portable Chinese-made lithium-ion battery that powers her mini-fridge.
“We only get electricity for 5 hours daily in this township. Our stored food and medicines go bad quickly,” she says from Lunzu, Blantyre, the commercial capital of Malawi in south-east Africa.
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