Generation failure causes country-wide power blackout

Most parts of the country were last evening plunged into darkness. Uganda power distributor Umeme Limited attributed the blackout to a technical problem affecting generation.
Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited , Eskom and Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited were not readily available to explain what could have caused the generation problem.
There were reports that a Turbine-Generator Unit at one of the of the dams tripped leading to shutdown of others along the same line at about 5:30 pm.
All the districts in the greater eastern including Jinja and northern regions were affected. In Lira the power went off at about 5:30pm, exactly the time the technical glitch at the dam occurred.
Some the affected parts had received power by the time of filing this report.