Ethiopia Hit By Nationwide Power Outage
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ADDS power restored in capital
Ethiopia’s power grid failed on Saturday evening and triggered a nationwide blackout, state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said.
The country’s power utility said it had restored electricity to half of the country, including most parts of the capital Addis Ababa, by around 10:20 pm (1920 GMT).
The Horn of Africa nation is home to 120 million people, the second largest population in Africa.
It first began generating power from the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile in February 2022, and in August that year announced a second turbine had begun producing electricity.
Ethiopia sells electricity to Kenya, Sudan and Djibouti and has signed memorandums of understanding with South Sudan, Tanzania and the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland
Source: AFP
