{"id":599865,"date":"2023-08-28T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T04:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=599865"},"modified":"2023-08-28T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T04:34:56","slug":"power-returns-to-kenya-after-14-hrs-longest-in-recent-memory-airport-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-returns-to-kenya-after-14-hrs-longest-in-recent-memory-airport-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Power returns to Kenya after 14 hrs, longest in recent memory; airport shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity was being restored in most parts of Kenya on Saturday, 14 hours after the longest outage in recent memory, the majority government-owned power distributor said. <\/p>\n<p>There was still no clear explanation for the outage that hit on Friday night, shutting down the country&#8217;s main international airport, affecting major hospitals and even the president&#8217;s office compound. <\/p>\n<p>I am really sorry for what has happened, Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said in a statement close to midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity was being restored in most parts of Kenya on Saturday, 14 hours after the longest outage in recent memory, the majority government-owned power distributor said. There was still no clear explanation for the outage that hit on Friday night, shutting down the country&#8217;s main international airport, affecting major hospitals and even the president&#8217;s office compound. I am really sorry for what has happened, Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said in a statement close to midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}