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The monkey business at Kenya Power

My Take is about the day Kenya lived up to the derogatory term Dark Continent. Saturday morning, Kenyans woke up in darkness. The country had been plunged into a 5 hour national blackout. Kenyans were not surprised. This was the second in just 2 months.

At least in this case, the cause was a more, shall I say, honourable one: Technical hitch in transmission from Olkaria.

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