Zambia suffers major power outage

On Sunday, Zambia was hit by an electricity outage that affected almost every state in the country. This was as a result of irregular rainfall which resulted in power cuts.

The state owned power company Zesco made the announcement, it suspects a “system failure” and said it was was working to ensure “all systems are restored as quickly as possible”.

Most of the country region including the country capital, Lusaka  and the copperbelt region which houses of majority of Zambia’s copper mines, was also without electricity on Sunday.  This resulted in the mines adopting the emergency diesel power.

Zesco later said it had begun a systematic restoration of power and was investigating the cause of the loss of electricity.

Zambia mostly gets its power from hydroelectric generation and has in the past experienced power cuts due to irregular rainfall

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