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Total’s Uganda Project to Help Create New Africa Oil Hub by 2025

  • President Museveni says Total, Cnooc on track to start output
  • Ugandan leader dismisses civil society’s concerns over project
An oil exploration tower on the shore of Lake Albert in western Uganda.

An oil exploration tower on the shore of Lake Albert in western Uganda.

Photographer: Walter Astrada/AFP/Getty Images

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is counting on TotalEnergies SE and Cnooc Ltd. to produce oil from its fields in four years, laying the foundation for a new regional fuel hub.