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Wakenya tumeshawafinya tena
kwenye Bomba La Mafuta.Sasa
Waache kulia,wawekeze kwanza
kwenye amani.M7 ameshtuka kule
pwani ya Kenya Bomba lake
litalipuliwa na Alashabaab,Ala-
something Aladidini na nduguze
Wasomali waliopinda wale:
Magufuli's Tanzania wins race for
billion-dollar oil pipe as Uganda
opts out of deal with Kenya
02 Mar 2016 12:55 Joseph Burite,
Fred Ojambo
…as Nairobi puts on a brave face;
says such a deal would have been
agreed beforehand between
presidents Museveni and
Kenyatta.
Uganda is thought to be wary of
militants attacks on what would be
a national asset. Image/ Google
Maps
Uganda is thought to be wary of
militants attacks on what would be
a national asset. Image/ Google
Maps
TANZANIA and Uganda’s leaders
agreed to build a crude pipeline
linking their countries, connecting
landlocked oilfields to the Indian
Ocean, Tanzanian President John
Magufuli said.
The proposed link will cover 1,120
kilometres (700 miles) and its
construction will create 15,000
jobs, Magufuli said in a statement
e-mailed by his office in Dar es
Salaam, the commercial capital.
Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni said on his Twitter
account that he had “discussed
plans” about the pipeline with
Magufuli and that it would employ
1,500 people.
Tanzania is competing with
neighbouring Kenya for the
pipeline that will tap Ugandan oil
deposits being developed by
companies including Total SA of
France, China National Offshore
Oil Corp. and London-based
Tullow Oil Plc. Total Chief
Executive Officer Patrick
Pouyanne met Museveni in
December and said his company
preferred transporting crude via
Tanzania. Tullow has also
discovered oil in northern Kenya.
READ: Kenya, Uganda agree to
build 1,500km northern oil
pipeline to Indian Ocean
Uganda’s government said in
October it was considering
sending its crude through
Tanzania as a lower cost option to
the Kenya route.
‘Bilateral agreement’
Decisions on the design and
financing of the pipeline and a
refinery have repeatedly pushed
back the target date for producing
Uganda’s first oil, after deposits
were initially discovered a decade
ago. Ernest Rubondo, head of
Uganda’s Directorate of
Petroleum, said last month the
government would make a
decision on the routing of the link
in the first half of the year. He
didn’t answer calls on Wednesday
when Bloomberg news agency
sought further comment.
Bukenya Matovu, a spokesman for
Uganda’s energy ministry, said he
didn’t know whether the
agreement with Tanzania was a
final decision and that such a
project would need a bilateral
agreement. “Maybe that is one
thing they talked about,” Matovu
said by phone.
Uganda is interested in the
Tanzanian route because “it is
shorter and more secure in light
of what is happening in Somalia,”
Matovu said. One of the routes
proposed by Kenya would be
through it’s northern territory to
the coastal town of Lamu.
‘Unaware’
Those areas are close to Somalia,
where Islamist militants have been
waging an insurgency against the
government for the past decade.
The al-Qaeda-linked fighters have
also carried out attacks within
Kenya.
The Kenyan Energy Ministry is
unaware of the Tanzanian
agreement with Uganda,
Permanent Secretary Joseph
Njoroge said on Wednesday. Such
a decision wouldn’t have been
made without Museveni notifying
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
first because the two leaders have
a close relationship, said a Kenyan
government official who asked not
to be identified in line with
government policy.
Kenya projects the cost of the
pipeline would be about $4.5
billion. Estimates for the
Tanzanian route, which would end
at the northeastern port of Tanga,
haven’t been announced.
kwenye Bomba La Mafuta.Sasa
Waache kulia,wawekeze kwanza
kwenye amani.M7 ameshtuka kule
pwani ya Kenya Bomba lake
litalipuliwa na Alashabaab,Ala-
something Aladidini na nduguze
Wasomali waliopinda wale:
Magufuli's Tanzania wins race for
billion-dollar oil pipe as Uganda
opts out of deal with Kenya
02 Mar 2016 12:55 Joseph Burite,
Fred Ojambo
…as Nairobi puts on a brave face;
says such a deal would have been
agreed beforehand between
presidents Museveni and
Kenyatta.
Uganda is thought to be wary of
militants attacks on what would be
a national asset. Image/ Google
Maps
Uganda is thought to be wary of
militants attacks on what would be
a national asset. Image/ Google
Maps
TANZANIA and Uganda’s leaders
agreed to build a crude pipeline
linking their countries, connecting
landlocked oilfields to the Indian
Ocean, Tanzanian President John
Magufuli said.
The proposed link will cover 1,120
kilometres (700 miles) and its
construction will create 15,000
jobs, Magufuli said in a statement
e-mailed by his office in Dar es
Salaam, the commercial capital.
Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni said on his Twitter
account that he had “discussed
plans” about the pipeline with
Magufuli and that it would employ
1,500 people.
Tanzania is competing with
neighbouring Kenya for the
pipeline that will tap Ugandan oil
deposits being developed by
companies including Total SA of
France, China National Offshore
Oil Corp. and London-based
Tullow Oil Plc. Total Chief
Executive Officer Patrick
Pouyanne met Museveni in
December and said his company
preferred transporting crude via
Tanzania. Tullow has also
discovered oil in northern Kenya.
READ: Kenya, Uganda agree to
build 1,500km northern oil
pipeline to Indian Ocean
Uganda’s government said in
October it was considering
sending its crude through
Tanzania as a lower cost option to
the Kenya route.
‘Bilateral agreement’
Decisions on the design and
financing of the pipeline and a
refinery have repeatedly pushed
back the target date for producing
Uganda’s first oil, after deposits
were initially discovered a decade
ago. Ernest Rubondo, head of
Uganda’s Directorate of
Petroleum, said last month the
government would make a
decision on the routing of the link
in the first half of the year. He
didn’t answer calls on Wednesday
when Bloomberg news agency
sought further comment.
Bukenya Matovu, a spokesman for
Uganda’s energy ministry, said he
didn’t know whether the
agreement with Tanzania was a
final decision and that such a
project would need a bilateral
agreement. “Maybe that is one
thing they talked about,” Matovu
said by phone.
Uganda is interested in the
Tanzanian route because “it is
shorter and more secure in light
of what is happening in Somalia,”
Matovu said. One of the routes
proposed by Kenya would be
through it’s northern territory to
the coastal town of Lamu.
‘Unaware’
Those areas are close to Somalia,
where Islamist militants have been
waging an insurgency against the
government for the past decade.
The al-Qaeda-linked fighters have
also carried out attacks within
Kenya.
The Kenyan Energy Ministry is
unaware of the Tanzanian
agreement with Uganda,
Permanent Secretary Joseph
Njoroge said on Wednesday. Such
a decision wouldn’t have been
made without Museveni notifying
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
first because the two leaders have
a close relationship, said a Kenyan
government official who asked not
to be identified in line with
government policy.
Kenya projects the cost of the
pipeline would be about $4.5
billion. Estimates for the
Tanzanian route, which would end
at the northeastern port of Tanga,
haven’t been announced.
