Uganda picks Tanzania for oil pipeline, drops Kenya plan

Landlocked Uganda has announced it will build a major pipeline to export its oil through Tanzania. Uganda had planned to send the pipeline through Kenya, which wanted a joint facility for oil from its own fields that are under development. The pipeline will now be routed further south, with concerns about possible attacks by Somalia’s […]

Landlocked Uganda has announced it will build a major pipeline to export its oil through Tanzania.
Uganda had planned to send the pipeline through Kenya, which wanted a joint facility for oil from its own fields that are under development.
The pipeline will now be routed further south, with concerns about possible attacks by Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamists said to be a factor.
The group has attacked targets close to where the pipeline would have passed.
Uganda announced its decision in Kampala at a summit of the East African Community bloc, which groups Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan.