Kenya suffered its second main blackout in per week on Friday, however electrical energy was restored in some elements after a couple of hours, nationwide distributor Kenya Energy mentioned.
The corporate didn’t give causes for the outage, which affected areas round East Africa’s greatest economic system and adopted one other hours-long blackout final Friday.
A number of hours after confirming the outage, Kenya Energy mentioned energy had been restored to affected elements of the North Rift, Central Rift, Western, Nairobi and Mount Kenya areas.
Collection of blackouts
“We want to apologise to our clients for the inconvenience brought on by the outage and search their persistence as we work in the direction of restoration of regular service within the remaining areas,” it mentioned in a press release.
Kenya has suffered a collection of blackouts within the final yr, together with one which plunged Nairobi’s major airport into darkness. Authorities haven’t defined the causes. — George Obulutsa and Humphrey Malalo, (c) 2024 Reuters
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