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No large power outage reported

Cloudflare Radar has not reported a power outage in Kenya that cut the internet, and nobody here is reporting one right now.

0 people reported no power in the last hour
Internet in Kenya now: Operational
A big power cut shows up within minutes as a drop in the internet; the cause follows once Cloudflare Radar has confirmed it.

0power reports, last 24 hours

10power outages since 2022

9of them nationwide

29 hourslongest

Power reports, last 24 hours

No reports

reports per 15 minutes usual level power outage confirmed (Cloudflare Radar)

Power outages in Kenya

Started (UTC)	What happened	Duration
Jul 29, 2026 17:15	Nationwide power outage A national power grid failure caused a significant drop in Internet traffic across Kenya, with Coast and Central regions most affected.	5 hours
Dec 9, 2025 16:15	Power outage in Kiambu County, Nakuru County Incident on the regional kenya-Uganda interconnected power network	4 hours
Dec 17, 2024 21:15	Nationwide power outage Widespread power outage affecting most of the country	7 hours
Sep 6, 2024 06:00	Nationwide power outage Power outage across several parts of the country	7 hours
Aug 30, 2024 18:30	Nationwide power outage Confirmed power outage across multiple parts of the country	9 hours
May 2, 2024 14:30	Nationwide power outage Power supply disruption resulted in nationwide Internet disruptions	4 hours
Nov 11, 2023 17:00	Nationwide power outage Nationwide power outage	7 hours
Aug 25, 2023 18:45	Nationwide power outage Power outage caused by system disturbance	29 hours
Mar 4, 2023 14:30	Nationwide power outage	9 hours
Nov 24, 2022 12:00	Nationwide power outage	6 hours

Source: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CC BY-NC 4.0), outages with the cause "power outage". Times in UTC.

How we know

When the power goes out, phone masts, routers and data centres without backup power go dark, and a country's internet traffic drops. Cloudflare sees that drop in its own traffic, checks what caused it, and lists it in its Outage Center. We take the ones caused by a power outage and show them here and on the live map (⚡).

That makes this a list of large outages: a whole country, or a region big enough to show up in internet traffic. A power cut in one town, or one that backup power bridges, is not in it. The cause is added by hand, so an outage can appear here a few hours after it began; our own probes on the live map show the drop in the internet straight away.