The trouble in Uganda

The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) Engineering brigade is working to remove a floating island which clogged a turbine at the hydroelectric power station in Jinja.

The deep floating island also known as Sudds on Lake Victoria triggered a nationwide blackout in Uganda. The blockage clogged a turbine in a hydroelectric power station, and the power went down.

The outage also caused a broadcast by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on the COVID-19 crisis to be delayed. Commenting on the nationwide blackout on Tuesday afternoon, the Chief Executive Officer of the Electricity

Regulatory Authority said the generation agencies are exhausting the power reserves to ensure the constant power supply to the whole country.

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