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Uganda: Activist Nakabuye Challenges European Leaders Over Support for Crude Oil Pipeline Project
Nile Post, 30 March 2022
Hilda Nakabuye, a Ugandan climate and environmental rights activist and founder of Uganda's Fridays for Future movement, has challenged top European decision-makers over their… Read more »
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East Africa: Activists Opposed to East African Crude Oil Pipeline Call on Pope Francis for Support #AfricaClimateCrisis
allAfrica, 24 March 2022
Ugandan activists have met Pope Francis to ask for his support in stopping the East African Crude Pipline (EACOP) - a heated crude oil pipeline planned to run from Hoima in Uganda… Read more »
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East Africa: Youth Activists Pressure French National Assembly Over Total's Oil Pipeline
RFI, 17 March 2022
Ugandan environmental activists hit out at a mega oil project by TotalEnergies in East Africa. Four leading youth activists were received by the French National Assembly yesterday… Read more »
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Uganda: Uganda Oil At Risk in Totalenergies Court Case
Independent (Kampala), 7 March 2022
Several European environmental groups have filed a law suit in Paris against French energy giant, TotalEnergies, accusing the company of "misleading consumers about its efforts to… Read more »
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Africa: Why What's Good for TotalEnergies Is Bad for the Rest of Us
African Arguments, 17 February 2022
The oil and gas major's record-breaking profits will do little to comfort the people of the Global South. Read more »
Activists Against Oil Pipeline Call on Pope #AfricaClimateCrisis
Ugandan activists have met Pope Francis to ask for his support in stopping the East African Crude Pipeline - a heated crude oil pipeline planned to run from Hoima in Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania. The proposed project will cover an area of 1,443-kilometres and run near Africa's largest freshwater reserve - Lake Victoria - posing a huge threat to local livelihoods and biodiversity in the region.
InFocus
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Environmental groups have criticised the plan by French and Chinese oil companies to develop oil resources under Lake Albert in Uganda and build a pipeline to bring the oil though ... Read more »
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The East African Crude Oil Pipeline, set to launch in April 2021 after Tanzanian President John Magufuli's death, has been hugely controversial - from the residents along the 1,443 ... Read more »
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More than 260 charity organisations have urged banks not to finance a U.S.$3.5 billion oil pipeline in East Africa, over concerns that the project could lead to the loss of ... Read more »
