Kenya was on Saturday night plunged into a countrywide blackout from around 8 p.m., being the latest power outage to hit homes and businesses in recent years. The State-owned power distributor blamed the blackout on a hitch at two key generation points in Olkaria. Normal supply was restored near midnight. How many blackouts have hit Kenya in recent years? Saturday’s blackout was the fifth countrywide power outage in at least three years. Over the same period, different parts of the country have been subjected to long outages. The longest blackout…
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