blackout

April 29, 2025

A day without power: What 12 hours of darkness looked like in Spain and Portugal

CNN — Luis Ibáñez Jiménez was driving on a highway in east Madrid when Spain lost power. “Suddenly, there were…

June 20, 2024

CNN — Ecuador was hit with an hours-long nationwide blackout on Wednesday that left the South American nation’s 17 million…

October 28, 2023

CNN — Large swaths of Ghana are facing power blackouts due to gas shortages at a major power facility, the…

September 24, 2022

CNN- When Iranian authorities pulled the plug on the internet in 2019 amid anti-government protests, the international community struggled to…

July 1, 2022

Khartoum, Sudan (CNN)At least eight protesters were shot dead in Sudan on Thursday, medics said, as large crowds took to the streets…

April 1, 2019

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced 30 days of electricity rationing Sunday, after his government said it was shortening the working…

March 28, 2019

Venezuelans wavered between despair and rage Wednesday as they endured a third day of a near-nationwide blackout that has paralyzed…

March 27, 2019

President Nicolas Maduro blamed “terrorists” for a new, near-nationwide blackout that gripped Venezuela Tuesday, two weeks after a similar outage…

July 31, 2017

Egypt’s Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek on Sunday ordered that 11 Cairo International Airport employees be detained pending investigation into a…

April 16, 2015

Facing a long, cold southern hemisphere winter of power cuts, many South Africans are choosing to cope with their frustrations…