Kenya is experiencing a national power outage following a system disturbance.
In a statement on Saturday, Kenya Power said, “We have lost power supply in the national grid due to a system disturbance which occurred on our transmission network at 5.49am.”
Kenya Power said engineers identified a technical fault in a section of the main high voltage transmission power line that evacuates power to Nairobi from Olkaria power generation sites in Naivasha.
The fault occured near Kiambu town.
"An electricity conductor came off the support insulators and clashed on the tower," network management general manager Eng Charles Mwaura said.
Power has been restored in some areas across the country.
Uganda is also experiencing a blackout.
The country's main power distribution company - Umeme - in a statement said there was emergency load shedding from Saturday to Monday, 9am-5pm in Nalubale, Kiira, Bujagali and Isimba.
The shedding is to allow water release tests.
In 2016, a monkey caused a nationwide blackout in Kenya after falling on to a crucial piece of equipment.
The monkey fell on a transformer at the Gitaru hydroelectric power station.
The transformer then tripped, resulting in the loss of 180 megawatts of power and triggering a blackout across Kenya, the BBC had reported.
Power was restored almost four hours later and the monkey survived and was taken in by the Kenya Wildlife Service.
