this is a daily reminder to Iraqis living in Baghdad their country is among<br />the world's richest in energy but for this man and those living here<br />power cuts and outdated electricity infrastructure make them angry<br />and a mix of corruption mismanagement and political crisis are making that to<br />us<br />we have four hours of blackouts followed by two hours of service but when the<br />national electricity is on it's like traffic lights it goes on and off all<br />the time <br />people here are suffering when these cables are failing to deliver power to<br />their households but when they do they become dangerous to human lives as their<br />left low hanging in residential areas power Cuts has been a main instigator for angry protests in Iraq in the pas few years under a 50 degrees Celsius summer people had to live with blackouts or pay for local generators