Botswana was hit by a nationwide electricity blackout shortly after midnight following a “grid disturbance”, the state’s power utility has said on Twitter.
Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) said it was investigating the cause of the “grid disturbance”.
It led to an outage at two power plants, and a transmission power line that connects the country to neighbouring South Africa, BPC said.
“We are currently restarting both our power generation plants,” BPC added.
Load-shedding – meaning rotating power cuts – has been introduced in the meantime.
Botswana had occasional power cuts last year, for the first time since 2015, according to South Africa’s News24 website