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Japan gives Uganda $125m credit for Karuma power evacuation lines

The Japanese government overseas development agency, JICA, has offered the Ugandan government Shs460b ($125m) loan for construction of the Kampala Metropolitan transmission line for electricity from Karuma dam.
Aerial photo of the Karuma hydropower project

Cheaper imports bigger problem than interest rates, steel magnate says

The Chinese firms constructing Karuma and Isimba hydropower plants are not buying steel from Ugandan manufacturers, according to Sikander Lalani, the chief executive officer of Uganda's largest steel manufacturer, Roofings Group.

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