The blackout is just the latest in a country familiar with the struggle to keep the lights on.
"Initial reports indicate that the outage was caused by a fault that occurred on the Suswa-Loyangalani high-voltage power transmission line," the power utility said in a statement.
The country's sole electricity distributor said power was restored to Eldoret, Kisumu and Nakuru and the electricity had also returned to at least one part of the capital
The company buys the bulk of its power from
Although widespread blackouts are relatively common in
A notable exception was in
Later that month, three senior managers at
lo/msh (Reuters, Kenya Power)
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