Region: Uganda

A foreign-owned utility says it may pursue a London arbitration against the Ugandan government after being compelled to hand back control of an electricity distribution concession.

02 April 2025

A Ugandan court has enforced an LCIA award won by a foreign-owned energy company against its local partners in a solar power project, rejecting arguments that it conflicted with public policy.   

29 April 2024

CORRECTED: A South African investment fund has won almost US$36 million in a London-seated ICC case against a Ugandan businessman and his companies over repayment of a loan that financed a real estate development in Kampala.

23 August 2023

A Yemeni businessman has threatened Uganda with an almost US$860 million ICSID claim over the alleged expropriation of his investment in a project to redevelop one of Africa’s largest open markets.

06 April 2022

A tribunal is in place to hear an US$800 million railway-related claim against Kenya and Uganda after the states rejected a proposal to have the dispute heard by a five-member panel.

10 November 2021

A UK court has upheld a tribunal’s decision to allow a rail company’s claim against Uganda to proceed without permission from the claimant’s Ugandan court-appointed liquidator.

02 March 2021

The UK’s Tullow Oil has withdrawn its ICSID claim against Uganda relating to a dispute over VAT after reaching a settlement with the state and its revenue authority. 

19 November 2020

Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni is facing criticism in the country after agreeing a package of bonuses for government in-house lawyers who were behind the state’s victory in a US$400 million tax dispute with Canada’s Heritage Oil.

09 May 2017

22 June 2015