Dumsor

In Ghana, dumsor (Akan pronunciation: [dum sɔ] 'off and on') is a persistent, irregular, and unpredictable electric power outage.

[7] Ghana's power supply profusely became erratic in early 2013, because of generation capacity and breach in contract obligations to external partners.

The term Dumsor is used to denote a period of a permanently erratic power supply under the NDC administration when Ghanaian generating capacity by 2015 went all-time low 400-600 megawatts, less than Ghana needed.

The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), in a report, stated that Ghana lost about 1 billion dollars in 2014 alone because of dumsor.

[15] A woman in labour at the Bawku Presby Hospital who gave birth and was on oxygen lost both her life and that of the unborn baby after power supply went off in February 2016.

[17] Health and safety was also harmed, with hospitals having no light, and electricity to run fans, contributed to an increasing malaria risk.

After the death of then President John Evans Atta Mills during when the persistent on and off nature of the power supply in the country became abhorrent, Ghanaians out of frustration named the situation dumsor.

[9] The word has been used by the general public in Ghana since 2012[23] in expressing anger, fun, mockery, worry and disappointment about the authorities and the ruling government.