Kenyan minister apologises after main airport loses power in blackout

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Kenya's transport minister apologised to the country late on Friday night after a widespread electricity blackout left passengers at the main airport in Nairobi grappling in darkness.

Power went off in many parts of the country at 9.45 p.m. on Friday, the electricity distribution company Kenya Power

Images of stranded passengers sitting in darkness at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport soon surfaced on social media. The airport operator Kenya Airports Authority said that one of its stand-by generators at the facility did not kick in.

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