When power goes out in the rural town of Soroti in eastern Uganda, store manager Hussein Samsudin can only hope it won't go on so long it spoils his fresh goods.
Another shop owner, Richard Otekat, 37, has to pay a neighbour hourly to use his generator during blackouts as he can't afford to buy one himself, while others simply go without.
However residents of the town, surrounded by thatched huts, rivers and grasslands, hope a new solar plant, which went into operation last week, will bring an end to their electricity woes.
The $19 million (18-million euro), 33-acre solar plant—the first of its kind in East Africa—can produce 10 megawatts of power that is fed into Uganda's national power grid.
The project is crucial as Uganda seeks new ways to bring electricity to the 80 percent of its 40 million-strong population that does not have access to power.
Mud hut, solar panels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @07:05PM
Your irony meter is broken:
... wholesome Christian values ...
... use of crucifixions and portable guillotines which could neatly fold and be placed in the backs of jeeps served as a strong deterrent to the lawless.
And to think some people around here wonder why liberals are worried about a Trump (and the people he represents) presidency....
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @08:06PM
I realize there's a lot of confusion because Christians seem to have co-oped the name of somebody who achieved enlightenment around 2k years ago and was subsequently executed, but there really aren't any similarities between his teachings and Christian values.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @09:21PM
Yes, the inbred hypocrisy with christianity is hard for a lot of people to handle, and undoubtedly is a large part of why churches are having such problems recruiting the younger generation.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by meustrus on Thursday December 22 2016, @10:57PM
I'll mod you up with the caveat that it is not all Christians. In my experience there's a broad spread of goodness not too different from the spread among the more secular. And the nicer ones are the ones that keep to themselves more.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?