The island's electricity plants had already suffered a series of outages, even before forecasters warned that a "life-threatening" storm was about to strike.

The government of the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe ordered a curfew on Saturday, a day after a strike by workers left 370,000 people in darkness for nearly 24 hours. The ...

A small town in Cuba was recovering Tuesday from flooding that killed at least seven people after Oscar crossed the island’s ...

hours after the island plunged into a countrywide blackout following the collapse of one of its major power plants. The vast majority of the country's 10 million residents were still in the dark ...

Many Cubans waited in anguish late Sunday as electricity on much of the island had yet to be restored days after a ...

Wednesday’s total blackout also follows a similar episode last month when the entire country lost power for several days.

According to global internet monitor NetBlocks, Mozambique's social media access has been restricted for the second time in a ...

a day after a massive blackout swept across the Caribbean island and with no official estimate for when service will be restored. The Cuban energy ministry announced that the grid had gone down ...

Nine months after the blackout the city was said to enjoy a baby boom, with a small surge in the birth rate.