MPs Question Energy Ministry, UEDCL Over Worsening Power Outages
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has tasked the Energy and Mineral Development Ministry and the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) to explain the...
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Umeme Share Sheds 85% Value ahead of Loss Announcement
Umeme Limited’s shares have lost about 85 percent of their value since the electricity distributor handed over its concession to the government in March 2025, making th...
UEDCL Purge: Vindictive House-Cleaning or Necessary Reform? Taxpayers Face Costly Legal Reckoning
KAMPALA — In a move that has sent shockwaves through Uganda’s power sector, the interim leadership at the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) has...
UEDCL’s Mass Purge Exposes a Dangerous Culture of Panic Management
Eng. Joselynne Rwakakooko was appointed the acting managing director of UEDCL, replacing Paul Mwesigwa, and her first move has been to sack the top management in a move s...
The untold battle: Power struggles and fight over deals at UEDCL
man often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it,” the French poet Jean de La Fontaine famously said. The idea is that, despite one’s best efforts to avoid...
High Court orders estate account before renewing administration of late Muhakanizi’s estate
The High Court Family Division in Kampala has ordered the administrator of the estate of the late Muhakanizi Keith to file a full account of the estate within one month a...
Mr President, Please Consider Bringing Back UMEME and UNRA
As it is always said, the goodness of someone will not be felt until that person disappears. Mr President, that is what we are now feeling after the departure of UMEME fr...
Who is incoming UEDCL board chair Stella-Marie Biwaga?
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ms Ruth Nankabirwa, has named Ms Stella-Marie Biwaga as interim Board chairperson for Uganda Electricity Distribution Comp...
UEDCL bosses sacked over poor performance
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has fired the Uganda Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd (UEDCL) Board chairperson, Ms Lydia Ochieng Obbo and placed its manag...
UEDCL records Shs1.71t revenue in first year of power distribution takeover
Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited has registered a strong operational and financial rebound in its first year of managing the country’s electricity distri...