{"id":4953,"date":"2019-08-29T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"uganda-abandons-bid-for-hydro-project-near-murchison-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/29\/uganda-abandons-bid-for-hydro-project-near-murchison-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Abandons Bid For Hydro Project Near Murchison Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uganda has scrapped plans to construct a hydropower station near Murchison Falls, an official said Wednesday, project tourism operators had warned would irreversibly scar one of East Africa&#8217;s natural wonders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabinet agreed the proposed 360-megawatt project on the Victoria\nNile in Murchison Falls National Park would &#8220;affect the scenery, ecosystem\nand subsequently tourism\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/Uganda-abandons-bid-for-hydro-project-near-Murchison-Falls\/2560-5251902-ock4r7z\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has scrapped plans to construct a hydropower station near Murchison Falls, an official said Wednesday, project tourism operators had warned would irreversibly scar one of East Africa&#8217;s natural wonders.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}