KfW revives West Nile electrification

Germany's KfW Entwicklungsbank has stepped in with financing to revive a project to bring power to Uganda's remote West Nile region. West Nile Rural Electrification Company (Wenreco), owned by the Aga Khan's Industrial Promotion Services, was set up in 2003 but ran into trouble when the engineering, procurement and construction contractor on the Nyagak small hydro project, Skoda Export, went into receivership. Wenreco had to get out of that contract