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Why a 70-ton Egyptian transformer landed in the Bahamas

When the Bahamas needed to upgrade its local power grid, it looked to Africa for the heavy-duty hardware. Adefemi Akinsanya goes inside Elsewedy Electric — the Egyptian industrial powerhouse proving that world-class infrastructure can be built and exported from the continent.

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