Cost of power outage on Kenyan economy

GRAPHIC | STANSLAUS MANTHI | NMG

Kenya Power plunged the country into its third nationwide blackout in five months on Sunday. The frequent outages have been blamed on ageing transmission lines that expose many businesses and households to financial losses.

The most recent interruption happened on Sunday at 7:30pm after an overloaded Kisumu-Muhoroni 132 kilovolt (kV) line tripped.

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