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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka plunged into darkness on Sunday as a nationwide power outage caused massive losses to businesses and wiped millions ...

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 ...

Kenya had one of its most unexpected power outages when a single vervet monkey brought the country’s electricity supply to a halt. The small animal managed to sneak past security fencing at the Gitaru ...