Uganda in talks with China's Sinohydro over power line to South Sudan
The Chinese firm is completing a $1.5 billion, 600-megawatt hydropower project on River Nile in Northern Uganda that is meant to be the source for the electricity exports to South Sudan. PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK
Uganda is in talks with Chinese firm Sinohydro Corporation Limited for the development of a $180 million power transmission line to allow Uganda to export power to energy-starved South Sudan, the president's office said.
As part of the talks, a delegation led by Yang Yi Xin, Sinohydro Corporation's vice president, met Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, a statement from Museveni's office said late on Monday.
