A worker assembles an electric motorbike on an assembly line at the manufacturing centre of Spiro, the largest electric vehicle (EV) company in Africa specialising in motorbikes and battery-swapping infrastructure, amid a national fuel price crisis in Nairobi on May 22, 2026. The war in the Middle East, launched by the United States and Israel earlier this year, has had the unlikely consequence of boosting green vehicles across Africa, especially in countries like Kenya that are heavily dependent on fuel imports. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP via Getty Images)