Umeme exit sets Uganda power sector on a delicate path

At the end of March 2025, power distributor Umeme will go back to its immediate supervisor Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (UEDCL), the distribution concession it has held 20 years and the associated assets.

With that, the curtain will fall on a company that has been loved and loathed in almost equal measure, and one of the luminaries in Uganda and Africa’s dalliances with liberalisation of the energy sector.

Umeme exit sets Uganda power sector on a delicate path

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