Items related to blackouts

Louise Sarant 04 Apr 2013
It has become a recurring phenomenon: Every day at dusk, the power shuts down, plunging street after street into...
A customer gets his haircut at a barber's shop during a power-cut in Cairo, 4 August 2012.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 02 Apr 2013
Unnamed sources claim authorities from the Electricity Ministry are accusing the Petroleum Ministry and president's...
A file photo of electricity pylons.
Maggie Hyde 11 Feb 2013
The National Bank for Development (NBD) announced on Monday that it has signed on to finance US$110 million in...
Egypt-Israel gas pipeline
MENA 30 Dec 2012
  A senior Petroleum Ministry official has said that the increased gas exports to Jordan last weekend did not...
A file photo of electricity pylons.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 13 Aug 2012
Power cuts continued across governorates Monday, with little sign of swift solutions in the making. Facing mounting...
A child holds a candle during a power-cut in Luxor, 3 August 2012.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 06 Aug 2012
Protests continued Monday night over power cuts in governorates across Egypt as some residents filed police reports...
Protesters continue their open sit-in in front of governorate headquarters, Qena, April 21,2011, as they protest against Coptic newly appointed governor Emad Mikhael.
Egypt Independent 01 Aug 2012
An important road in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena was reopened on Wednesday after it had been blocked by...
A file photo of electricity pylons.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 30 Jul 2012
Hundreds of residents in villages in Gharbiya have threatened to block roads to protest of power outages lasting more...
An Indian passenger sits as others sleep inside the compartment of a stationary train following the power outage that struck in the early hours of Monday, 30 July 2012 at a train station in New Delhi, India. A major power outage has struck northern India, plunging cities into darkness and stranding hundreds of thousands of commuters. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP 30 Jul 2012
NEW DELHI — Northern India's power grid crashed Monday, halting hundreds of trains, forcing hospitals and...
A file photo of electricity pylons.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Jul 2012
Power cuts continued across Egypt despite promises by officials from the electricity and energy ministries that the...