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Uganda agrees to pay oil firms more to use planned pipeline

Uganda oil pipeline
An oil pipeline (Photo, Courtesy)

Uganda said on Wednesday it had agreed to pay a higher tariff to use a pipeline planned to run through neighbouring Tanzania, boosting the prospects of a project vital for Uganda’s nascent petroleum industry.

Landlocked Uganda in 2016 picked a route for a pipeline through neighbouring Tanzania to the Indian Ocean port of Tanga to help export its crude.

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