No this isn't unusual and yes that is gasoline in the glass jars on the shelf. You may consider this a bit inconvenient, but where else can you get a service station that actually pumps gas?
And if you get impatient, you can always visit Starbucks, or the local equivalent which is the Tea shop in the center of this picture.
I tried to inject a bit of levity but from the pictures, you might begin to appreciate the material destruction of infrastructure that occured through 15 years of civil war. However, you can only begin to appreciate the loss of human infrastructure that the war has caused after talking with the people who survived the war. That was even worse and that was before Ebola. While the situations in the pictures look pretty primative, the people are recovering better than one might expect. They are hopeful, bright and industrious. They still have a very long way to go and our hope is that we can help them get at least a little farther along on that road.
My husband and I keep you in our prayers.
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