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The issue of land ownership is a major factor in the Ugandan oil and politics equation. During the grilling of National Resistance Movement grandees in parliament on 12 October, Buliisa MP Stephen Biraahwa Mukitale named a senior agent of the government’s Internal Security Organisation, Major Herbert Asiimwe Muramagi, as one of those accused by locals of attempting to illegally acquire land near the Taitai well in Kigorobya.

AIM-listed green power developer Camco International has won two contracts in East Africa worth $1.8m in revenue over the next three years. The first is for a $1m solar photovoltaic (PV) clusters project in Tanzania, and the second for an $800,000 project to provide technical assistance to clean development mechanism (CDM) projects in Uganda.

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The long-awaited Bujagali dam is due to start up its first 50MW unit in November, helping to alleviate the country’s electricity shortage.

Normally good relations with the International Monetary Fund have been restored after a brief hiatus. The IMF had announced in February, in language dry even by its standards, that Uganda “did not complete the first review under the three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI)”.

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development is inviting bids by 4 November from consultants to serve as project manager for construction of the 600MW Karuma hydroelectric project on the Victoria Nile River.

Fresh details of the machinations surrounding the sale of Heritage’s Ugandan oil acreage have emerged in the latest batch of WikiLeaks releases, writes Adrian J Browne.

Veteran oilman Jack Keyes has turned his attention to Zambia, attracted by the success of onshore exploration in Uganda.

Tanzania and Uganda have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate the development and operation of the Kikagati-Murongo hydropower project on their joint border.

Tullow is structuring its Uganda farm-down to give each of the partners operatorship in one of the three blocks, in a bid to make development of the Lake Albert Basin less of a one-man show, writes Thalia Griffiths

AIM-listed East Africa player Dominion Petroleum has failed to win shareholder approval for a recapitalisation scheme

Tullow Oil has appointed Eoin Mekie as

Recent pressure on the Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan shillings poses problems for power developers and others operating in East Africa’s fast-growing economies, with echoes of the late 1990s events in Asia that undermined that region’s burgeoning IPP sector, writes Kevin Godier with Jon Marks

Abu Dhabi-based oilfield service company AlMansoori Specialised Engineering has expanded into East Africa by opening an office in Kampala for its Target Well Control subsidiary. Elsewhere, Dominion Petroleum has agreed to acquire 75% in the production-sharing contract (PSC) for blocks 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Area 4 offshore Malta from Phoenicia Energy Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mediterranean Oil & Gas (MOG).

Stepping up exploration activity following the settlement of its tax dispute with the government, Tullow Oil has announced two oil strikes with the Jobi-East-1 and Mpyo-3 wells in Exploration Area 1.