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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Malawi has been hit by an unexpected power outage, plunging the country into total darkness. This is news because the country had been experiencing scheduled reduced power blackouts and national power outage these days are a rare occurrence.<\/p>\n

State run power distributors, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says in a notice that it experienced a system shutdown today at 1:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are yet to establish the cause of the system shutdown. We will inform the nation once all facts have been established.\u201d ESCOM has since assured the citizenry that efforts are being employed to normalize the situation.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Malawi has been hit by an unexpected power outage, plunging the country into total darkness. This is news because the country had been experiencing scheduled reduced power blackouts and national power outage these days are a rare occurrence. State run power distributors, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says in a notice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-56293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nNational power outage hits Malawi - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malawi has been hit by an unexpected power outage, plunging the country into total darkness. 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