Round 17: Tossup 12

The impact of these events is mitigated by the SBT tariff scheme, which inspired “trenches music” like “Nepa” in a country where these events cost 30 billion dollars annually. These events occurred until Sierra Leone paid a debt to the Karadeniz Group, whose ship Osman Khan prevents these events from causing periods of dumsor. Plastic pollution on the Ruzizi often causes these events in Burundi. (-5[1])Water scarcity and the daily impact of these events caused by Jirama (“jee-RAH-muh”) incited the 2025 (10[1])protests that toppled the Ntsay (“N-sigh”) government (10[2])by “Gen Z Mada.” eSwatini (-5[1])(“ess-wah-TEE-nee”) aims to prevent these events with sugarcane-based (10[1])cogeneration. (10[3])The state-owned (10[2])company (10[1])Eskom (10[3]-5[2])schedules these events (10[2])in regular (10[2])“load-shedding” (10[1])that threatens South Africa’s (10[1])AI data center boom. (10[1])For 10 points, what events sometimes last multiple days in Zambia due to drought shutting off (10[1])the Kariba Dam’s turbines? ■END■ (10[3])

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