Refinery rivalry: billion-dollar oil projects expose East Africa’s long-running regional tensions

By Brendon J. Cannon, Associate Professor, Khalifa University

East Africa, a region that has been working to deepen economic integration for more than 25 years, has a history of disagreements about the location of energy infrastructure. Uganda discovered oil in 2006 with the potential to pump an estimated 210,000 to 230,000 barrels of oil per day at peak production. Back in 2014, Kenya and Uganda agreed…

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