Tanzania Reports Power Outage In Some Parts Of Country For 2 Days: "Tunashukuru Wateja Kwa Uvumilivu"

• TANESCO said power supply will be unavailable in over 15 provinces from Saturday, August 26, to Monday, August 28.
• The Tanzanian parastatal said the power cut would enable a contractor to connect a new electricity line to the national grid
• Some of the affected provinces would be Iringa, Njombe, Ruvuma, Mbeya, Songwe, Dodoma, Singida, Manyara, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Shinyanga, Simiyu, Tabora, Mwanza, Geita and Mara

The Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) has announced two-day power cuts in some parts of the East African country.

TANESCO said power supply will be unavailable in over 15 provinces from Saturday, August 26, to Monday, August 28.

In a statement released on its Twitter page, the Tanzanian parastatal said the power cut will enable a contractor to connect a new electricity line to the national grid.

"The Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited informs its customers of interrupted electricity supply from August 26 to August 28 from 7am to 6pm.

The affected provinces would be Iringa, Njombe, Ruvuma, Mbeya, Songwe, Dodoma, Singida, Manyara, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Shinyanga, Simiyu, Tabora, Mwanza, Geita and Mara.

"Shirika linashukuru wateja wake kwa uvumilivu katika kipindi chote ambacho huduma ya umeme itakosekana," TANESCO stated.

Why Kenya experiences nationwide blackout

Tanzania's power interruption announcement came after several parts of Kenya were hit with a blackout on Friday, August 24.

In a statement, the monopoly electricity distributor noted it experienced a system disturbance at 9:45pm leading to the loss of bulk power supply to various parts.

On Saturday, August 26, morning, KPLC confirmed it had restored electricity to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), Nairobi and the Mt Kenya regions. However, other parts were still affected by the power loss.

"Our teams are working to restore electricity to all areas across the country that were affected by the outage. We apologise to customers for the inconvenience caused and thank them for their patience," KPLC stated.

Why Kenya experienced blackout in May

In May, another blackout rocked most parts of the country. KPLC attributed the outage to a system disturbance.

Reports indicated that the outage was caused by a fault on the Suswa-Loyangalani high-voltage power transmission line, Kenya Power said.

Kenyans took to social media to vent their frustrations following the nationwide power outage. Kenyans would, however, not keep calm, choosing to explode on the company, accusing it of incessant flaws that lead to such events as national blackout.