Zimbabwe's State power utility, ZESA, said on Tuesday it had restored power to most of the country after a fault on a key transmission line caused a nationwide blackout on Monday evening, while work continued to bring remaining generation units back online. The outage began at 18:24 local time (16:24 GMT) after a major fault on the Warren-Alaska 330 kV line disrupted interconnections with neighbouring power utilities and subsequently caused local generation to trip due to voltage instability and under frequency.

Zimbabwe restored electricity to most of the country after a nationwide blackout triggered by a grid failure, with engineers still reconnecting parts of Harare. The outage once…

A fault on the network caused the national grid to collapse at 6:24 pm local time on Monday, the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) said.