Uganda snubs Kenya, partners with Dar on oil pipeline deal

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni (left) during last year’s 11th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit, where a pipeline project deal was discussed. (PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD)

Kenya’s hopes of building an oil pipeline linking its coastal town of Lamu to Uganda’s oil fields have been dashed.

This is after Uganda and Tanzania yesterday announced that they had signed an agreement that will see the pipeline re-routed to Tanzania’s coast instead.