Sudan secures more power from Egypt after outages
May 27, 2025 (PORT SUDAN) – Sudan’s national electricity company announced on Tuesday an agreement with Egypt to increase power supply to Sudan’s Northern State, following a 40-day outage that crippled the region.
Electricity returned to Northern State on Monday evening after widespread blackouts caused paralysis and significant losses for farmers. The outages followed drone attacks in early April on the Merowe Dam and power generation stations in Dongola, which officials blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The prolonged power cuts severely impacted various sectors, including irrigation projects, factories, hospitals and medical centres.
“An agreement has been reached with the Egyptian Electricity Company to increase the electricity quota supplied to Northern State via the Egyptian interconnection project,” read a statement issued by the Sudan Electricity Company’s media coordination council.
The statement indicated that the agreement followed consultations in Cairo between Sudan’s Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Mohiuddin Naeem Mohamed Said, and his Egyptian counterpart, Mahmoud Esmat. It clarified that this strategic move was part of urgent efforts to address the electricity crisis, which worsened due to the shelling of power substations.
Sudan and Egypt completed the construction of the power interconnector in 2019. The line stretches approximately 100 kilometres on the Egyptian side and about 70 kilometres on the Sudanese side. The first phase of the connection aims to supply the Sudanese side with a continuous capacity of up to 70 megawatts, while the second phase targets a supply of up to 300 megawatts.
Abdallah Ahmed Mohamed Ali, Director General of the Sudan Electricity Company, stated that electricity would gradually return to all of Northern State. He emphasized that distribution would follow a fair distribution policy and activate a programming system based on available quantities.
He urged the public to rationalize consumption and understand the programming necessitated by supply conditions, affirming the company’s commitment to continuous efforts to stabilize the electricity supply as soon as possible.