East Africa: Oil Pipeline Gets Go-Ahead

Tanzania and Uganda have put pen to paper, for the construction of a 1,403-kilometre pipeline for transporting crude oil from Hoima to Tanga Port in Tanzania.

Presidents John Magufuli and his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, signed a communiqué to that effect, upon completion of discussions on sections of the contract which will be signed later, to set the project in motion.

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