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Kenya suffers third nationwide power blackout in 3 months

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Nairobi at night on August 25, 2023. Blackout was reported countrywide due to power outage. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

A nationwide power blackout hit Kenya Sunday evening, paralyzing large parts of the country, including the main airport in the capital, Nairobi, a major transport hub connecting East Africa to Asia, Europe and other parts of the world.

Sunday's outage began around 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) and was the third national power supply failure within the last three months.

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