Power restored in parts of Kenyan capital after major outage


  • World
  • Wednesday, 10 Jan 2018

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Electricity was restored in some parts of Kenya's capital Nairobi and its central, western and coastal regions early on Wednesday after a major power blackout the previous day.

A transmission system problem had caused the widespread outages on Tuesday evening, Kenya Power said in an earlier statement. [L8N1P454E] The areas affected included parts of Nairobi, Mount Kenya, Nyanza, Western, Rift Valley and Coast regions, according to the company.

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