Uganda: U.S. $1 Billion Rural Power Plan - Let's Avoid the Nakaseke Example

10 December 2013

The agency last week unveiled a $1bn plan to take power to the rural areas. The grand plan seeks to have at least 26 per cent of Ugandans access power by 2022.

This is an ambitious plan if you consider that despite the last 27 years of the National Resistance Movement - and its now tired mantra of fundamental change - has seen just 14 per cent of Ugandans access electricity.

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