"A failure on the Rabak-Masqar-Sennar-Maranjan-Alhasahisa power line caused the national energy grid to go down," the ministry said in a statement.

The authority did not give any reason for the failure, saying technicians were working to restore power supply.

​The outage comes amid months of anti-government protests that began last December as a public outcry against rising living costs and general economic hardships. Mass rallies prompted President Omar Bashir to dissolve the cabinet and declare the state of national emergency. </s> KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan suffered a total power blackout on Sunday, the ministry of electricity and water said.

The ministry gave no explanation for the blackout, but said in a statement that engineers and technicians were trying to restore power. It added that more information would be provided later. </s> Sudan’s ministry of electricity has confirmed a total power blackout across the country on Sunday but it has yet to announce the exact cause of the situation.

The development comes on the second-day of a sit-in protest by thousands close to the presidential palace in Khartoum.

Protesters from across the country have upped their call on embattled President Omar Al-Bashir to leave office after three decades in charge. The protests started in December 2018 and have been ongoing since then.

The country is currently under a state of emergency declared ostensibly to quell the protests. President Bashir declared a 16-month measure which has since been halved by the parliament.

The protesters gathered around an area that also housed the army headquarters and other state security outfits calling for support of the army in the move to oust Bashir.

Crunch day in Sudan.



A diplomatic source says major announcement awaited.



Several Arab states said offered Bashir a haven.



“Egypt ready to evacuate Bashir at moment’s notice.”



“Bur little sign he is buckling under pressure.”



Army will be forced to take a decision. — Rashid Abdi (@RAbdiCG) April 7, 2019 </s> This Story is breaking, please check back for updates

Sudan’s ministry of electricity has confirmed a total power blackout across the country on Sunday but it has yet to announce the exact cause of the situation.

The development comes on the second-day of a sit-in protest by thousands close to the presidential palace in Khartoum.

Protesters from across the country have upped their call on embattled President Omar Al-Bashir to leave office after three decades in charge. The protests started in December 2018 and have been ongoing since then.

The country is currently under a state of emergency declared ostensibly to quell the protests. President Bashir declared a 16-month measure which has since been halved by the parliament.

The protesters gathered around an area that also housed the army headquarters and other state security outfits calling for support of the army in the move to oust Bashir. </s> CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An electrical outage has left much of Venezuela without power in what authorities are decrying as an act of “sabotage.”

Local media reported Thursday that nearly the entire nation is experiencing a blackout just as workers begin their commute home.

State-owned electricity operator CORPOELEC blamed the outage as part of a “power war” against the nation on Twitter.

The agency says the blackout stems from an attack on the Guri power plant and that officials are working to restore service.

Pro-government officials often blame outages involving Venezuela’s mismanaged and poorly maintained power grid on the opposition.

Outages have become a regular occurrence in Venezuela though Thursday’s outage appeared to be wider in reach than usual. </s> A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left Argentina and Uruguay without power, according to reports by local media.

Infobae, an Argentinian website, reported on Sunday that the country has been in the dark for more than an hour, and all trains were suspended.

Local media said the blackout started at around 07:00 local time (12:00 GMT).

Electricitycompany Edesur Argentina said in a tweet: "A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left Argentina and Uruguay without power."

"Never has anything like this happened before," Alejandra Martinez, a spoksperson for the company told Infobae.

Social media reports on the blackout were widespread.

"Huge blackout in Argentina: the City, the Province of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe were left in the dark," a news agency posted on Twitter.

"What's happening with this blackout," a user on Twitter asked the government. </s> BUENOS AIRES: A massive outage blacked out Argentina and Uruguay Sunday, leaving both South American countries without electricity, power companies said.

Uruguay's system went down at 7:06 am (1006 GMT), according to the Uruguayan power company UTE, which attributed the outage to "a fault in the Argentine network."

Two Argentine power companies confirmed the failure knocked out electricity throughout Argentina, without specifying the cause.

"A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left all Argentina and Uruguay without power," Edesur Argentina said on Twitter.

Edenor, Argentina's largest electricity distributor, attributed the outage to a "general failure in the interconnection system.

UTE said the failure left Uruguay's "entire national territory without service, as well as several provinces of the neighbour country. More than an hour after the blackout, UTE said its system was being brought back from zero.

"Some coastal cities already have service and work continues toward general restoration (of power)," it said." </s> BUENOS AIRES: A massive outage blacked out Argentina and Uruguay on Sunday (Jun 16), leaving both South American countries without electricity, power companies said.

By mid-morning, streets were largely empty in a rainy Buenos Aires although some stores were open, operating with generators, while Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital, was almost entirely without power with only some traffic lights working.

Uruguay's system went down at 7.06am (6.06pm Singapore time), according to the Uruguayan power company UTE, which attributed the outage to "a fault in the Argentine network".

"The causes are being investigated and have not yet been determined," Argentina's secretariat of energy said on its Twitter account, adding it would take "some hours" to restore power completely.

Argentina, with 44 million people, and Uruguay, with 3.4 million, have a common power grid centered on the bi-national Salto Grande dam, 450km north of Buenos Aires.

Two Argentine power companies confirmed that the failure knocked out electricity throughout Argentina, without specifying the cause.

"A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left all Argentina and Uruguay without power," Edesur Argentina said on Twitter.

Edenor, Argentina's largest electricity distributor, attributed the outage to a "general failure in the interconnection system."

UTE said the failure left Uruguay's "entire national territory without service, as well as several provinces of the neighbor country."

More than an hour after the blackout, UTE said its system was being brought back "from zero".

"Some coastal cities already have service and work continues toward general restoration (of power)," it said. </s> The URL has been copied to your clipboard

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Power is being restored to Argentina and Uruguay after a massive electrical failure left more than 44 million people without electricity on Sunday. A massive blackout was caused by an unexplained failure in the countries' interconnected power grid. VOA's Zlatica Hoke reports
A major power outage occurs in Sudan, leaving almost the entire country without electricity amid ongoing anti-government protests.