{"id":21639,"date":"2026-07-30T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:23:13","slug":"kenya-utility-says-electricity-restored-in-several-regions-after-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/21639\/kenya-utility-says-electricity-restored-in-several-regions-after-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya utility says electricity restored in several regions after outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity has \u200bbeen restored in several parts \u200cof Kenya, power distributor Kenya Power\u00a0said on Thursday, following a power \u200boutage the previous evening.<\/p>\n<p>Supply \u200bwas restored across Mt. Kenya, North \u2060Rift, Western, South Nyanza and \u200bparts of Nairobi, the capital, \u200bthe utility said in a statement on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier it said Nairobi, the \u200bcoast, Mt. Kenya and parts \u200bof the Central Rift Valley had been \u200chit \u2060by the outage. The remaining parts of Nairobi and the coast region would follow, it added \u200bin its \u200bstatement.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya last \u2060suffered major power blackouts on its grid in \u200bSeptember and December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya \u200bPower \u2060supplies more than 9.6 million customers in Kenya, it says on \u2060its \u200bwebsite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity has \u200bbeen restored in several parts \u200cof Kenya, power distributor Kenya Power\u00a0said on Thursday, following a power \u200boutage the previous evening. Supply \u200bwas restored across Mt. Kenya, North \u2060Rift, Western, South Nyanza and \u200bparts of Nairobi, the capital, \u200bthe utility said in a statement on Wednesday night. Earlier it said Nairobi, the \u200bcoast, Mt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2831,2362],"tags":[111,5364,1395,5365,5367,5366],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-energy","category-featured","tag-kenya","tag-mt-kenya","tag-nairobi","tag-north-rift","tag-south-nyanza","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21641,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions\/21641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}