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The $50m-100m private sector African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) has launched its Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technologies (React) programme, offering grants and interest-free loans of around $250,000-1.5m for local and international investments in East African Community (EAC) countries.

Kenya | Uganda | Rwanda | Tanzania | Burundi
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With just two weeks until polling day, Kampala is plastered with election posters,most of them showing President Yoweri Museveni in his trademark straw hat. He is widely expected to defeat his main opponent Kizza Besigye in the first round but, whatever the outcome, the elections will be followed by a lengthy interregnum before the new president is inaugurated and the new parliament in place. This means that much government business will effectively be suspended until at least May, including resolving the protracted dispute over tax due on Heritage Oil & Gas’ sale of its assets to Tullow Oil.

Uganda
Issue 200 - 17 December 2010

Cairo moots 1,700MW hydro venture

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Faced with a reduced share of the Nile’s waters, Egypt is considering setting up a joint venture to produce 1,700MW of hydroelectric power in Uganda, Egyptian newspapers reported on 8 December

Egypt | Uganda
Issue 198 - 19 November 2010

KfW revives West Nile electrification

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Germany's KfW Entwicklungsbank has stepped in with financing to revive a project to bring power to Uganda's remote West Nile region. West Nile Rural Electrification Company (Wenreco), owned by the Aga Khan's Industrial Promotion Services, was set up in 2003 but ran into trouble when the engineering, procurement and construction contractor on the Nyagak small hydro project, Skoda Export, went into receivership. Wenreco had to get out of that contract

Uganda
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Energy ministers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Kenya have established a company to develop a pipeline to run from Lake Edward on the DRC-Uganda border to Kampala, via the Ugandan town of Hoima, close to Lake Albert, then to Eldoret on the Kenyan border, and on to Nairobi and Mombasa

Kenya | DR Congo | Uganda
Issue 195 - 09 October 2010

World Bank criticises Uganda

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Donors’ darling Uganda has received $100m in direct budget support from the World Bank –less than in previous years amid concern over slow progress in governance reforms and a rise in corruption.

Uganda
Issue 193 - 11 September 2010

New twists in Tullow Lake Albert saga

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Tullow Oil’s Lake Albert ambitions have been dealt another blow with the Ugandan government talking tough in a tax dispute with the company. Oil minister Hillary Onek has said that the government has repossessed the Kingfisher field following expiry of the exploration licence, in an apparent bid to put pressure on Tullow to resolve its dispute over the tax payable on its buyout of Heritage Oil Corporation’s holdings.

Uganda
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Tullow Oil has completed the $1.35bn purchase of a 50% interest in blocks 1 and 3A from Heritage Oil & Gas, though the issue of Heritage’s tax bill has not been settled. Following conditional government approval on 6 July, all conditions have been met and assets transferred to Tullow Uganda.

Uganda
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ANGOLA: New find on Block 15/06; EGYPT: Mitsui buys in; GABON: Perenco workover raises output; MOROCCO: Exploration progress; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: Total Takes Chevron’s Block 1 stake; NIGERIA: Drilling success for Sinopec; TUNISIA: AfDB funds for Etap; UGANDA: Butiaba appraisal success

Egypt | Angola | São Tomé & Príncipe | Nigeria | Uganda | Gabon | Morocco | Tunisia
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The government has given conditional approval for the sale of Heritage Oil Corporation’s assets to Tullow Oil, paving the way for development of the Albertine Graben’s oil resources, while Tullow Uganda has also received approval for its subsequent farm-down of 33% stakes to CNOOC and Total.

Uganda
Issue 189 - 26 June 2010

Uganda: Dominion spuds wildcat well

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Dominion Petroleum has spudded the Ngaji-1 wildcat, planned to drill to a total depth of 2,000 metres in the Lake Edward Basin

Uganda
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With production still some way off, Uganda’s oil exploration success has lost some of its lustre as the government continues to delay approval of a deal between Heritage and Tullow that would pave the way for a $10bn development project.

Uganda
Issue 188 - 12 June 2010

Government studies refinery options

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The Ugandan government is carrying out a study to determine the best size for a planned refinery to process crude from Lake Albert. The study, due for completion in the next month or so, will consider the regional market, and the type and size of refinery that would make commercial and economic sense.

Uganda
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As the rate of new discoveries in West Africa slows, the pace is picking up in East Africa, where hopes are high that Uganda’s remarkable success can be replicated elsewhere. Smaller players are seeing a bigger upside in entering frontier regions rather than in adding incremental production in West Africa’s established oil provinces.

Uganda
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Tullow Oil has been appraising the Kasamene field on Uganda’s Block 2 ahead of first oil planned in Q4 2011. Tullow exploration manager Robin Sutherland told Global Pacific & Partners’ African Petroleum Forum in London on 13 April that, despite the logistical problems, Tullow was keen to bring a rig in to drill in Lake Albert, and would bring in the parts to build an offshore

Uganda