Ugandan police announced Monday that they arrested nearly ten of the protesters who were protesting in Jinja, in the southeastern part of the African country, about the rapid increase in the cost of living. “Eight instigators have been arrested” and “will be prosecuted” today “for inciting violence,” police spokesman James Mooby told AFP. Protesters set […]
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EACOP: The 1,400 km African oil pipeline that aims to put Uganda on the global export map
An infrastructure project of epic proportions has begun construction in Uganda’s Great Rift Valley. It is an oil pipeline of more than 1,400 kilometers (1,443) which will reach the coast of Tanzania. As The Times reports, the East African Oil Pipeline, or EACOP, will make Uganda an oil producer for the first time and, as […]