Uganda opts for Tanzania pipeline route

Uganda has decided to build an export pipeline from Lake Albert to Tanzania’s Tanga port, rather than the route through northern Kenya to Lamu previously agreed by President Yoweri Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta. A communiqué issued at the end of a one-day summit of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects in Kampala on 23 April said Museveni and Kenyatta had agreed that two crude oil pipelines be constructed. “The oil pipeline from Lokichar to Lamu in Kenya and another oil pipeline from Hoima to Tanga in Tanzania will be developed by the countries respectively,” the communiqué said.