A monkey has been blamed for causing a nationwide blackout in Kenya after 'falling onto a transformer at a power station'. The country on Africa's east coast was without electricity for more than ...

TL;DR: Sri Lanka's energy minister confirmed a nationwide power outage affecting 22 million people was caused by a monkey interacting with a grid transformer, leading to an imbalance. Sir Lanka's ...

An intruding monkey has been blamed for sending an island offline after it entered an electrical power station and caused a nationwide blackout. At approximately 11:30am local time yesterday, a rogue ...

Sri Lanka was once again plunged into utter chaos yesterday morning when an islandwide power outage hit the districts at around 10.45 am, disrupting the lives of its citizens and causing millions of ...

A nationwide blackout in Kenya has been blamed on a monkey that fell onto a transformer at a major power station. The entire country had no electricity for more than three hours earlier around 11.30 ...

A monkey in Sri Lanka is said to have caused a nationwide electrical blackout in Sri Lanka. Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod/Natural History Museum, London As much as humans have excelled at ...

No more monkeys jumping on the power grid! A countrywide power outage that left many stuck without cool air during a sweltering hot day in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a rogue monkey who climbed into ...

Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that disrupted ...