China’s Xi Backs East African Crude Export Pipeline, Uganda Says
- Chinese banks are ‘open to discussions’ over the project
- Museveni also calls for support to build railway, processing
Xi Jinping, right, and Yoweri Museveni in 2018.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said China’s leader Xi Jinping has expressed “unwavering support” for the development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project.
The plan to export landlocked discoveries of crude through a pipeline running 1,443 kilometers (897 miles) to the coast of Tanzania has faced opposition from environmental groups and the European Union in part due to its effects on the local population. Museveni, who has dismissed such calls, said in a statement Friday that he received a letter from Xi that highlighted cooperation between the countries.