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Murchison Falls, Uganda | AFP | The boat edged as close as possible to the deafening surge of water roaring over Murchison Falls, giving tourists a hair-raising shot of one of Africa’s awesome and terrifying natural spectacles. Tens of thousands visit northwest Uganda every year to marvel as the force of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history with spending expected to plunge in every major sector this year – from fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency – the International Energy Agency said in a new …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament want government to waive water and electricity bills for six months following the lockdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The legislators argue that the lockdown which came into force in March has left Ugandans incapacitated economically and …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Chief Executive Officer of Electricity regulatory authority-ERA, Ziria Tibalwa, has said that power generation agencies are exhausting the reserved power sources to ensure that, there is the constant power supply in the whole country.  Turbines at the three main power supply plants of Nalubaale, …

Cape Town, South Africa | AFP |  South Africa’s announcement that it will open up electricity generation to other players, effectively breaking Eskom’s monopoly, has been welcomed by many, especially the mining industry, a key sector in Africa’s most industrialised economy. President Cyril Ramaphosa in his annual state of the nation …

Washington, United States | AFP | Ethiopia made progress with Egypt and Sudan in US-brokered talks in easing concerns over a hotly contested mega-dam on the Nile, with a tentative agreement to fill it only during the rainy season. The three countries had set a deadline of Wednesday to reach …

Metekel, Ethiopia | AFP |  Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centres bereft of modern equipment, a dependence on flashlights after sundown — Kafule Yigzaw experienced all these struggles and more growing up without electricity in rural Ethiopia. So five years ago, he leapt at the chance to work on a …

  Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP |  South Africa’s electricity utility Eskom at the weekend resumed power outages, citing a “vulnerable” generating system, just weeks after implementing the severest rationing in recent times. The debt-laden company which generates around 95 percent of the country’s electricity, on Sunday said the cuts …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) announced on Dec.17 that it had made a net profit of Shs24.7bn for the financial year 2018/19, up from a loss of Shs10.8bn a year before. Officials said the profit, the first since the company’s inception in 2001, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s electricity distributor, Umeme Limited has secured a $70m (Ushs .258 billion) funding to support its planned investments in the electricity distribution network. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) was the lead-arranger in the syndicate including Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, Standard Chartered Bank and the …