Musevani proposes South Sudan pipeline through Uganda
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni would like the proposed pipeline from South Sudan to the Kenyan port of Lamu to pass through Uganda. Uganda’s Daily Monitor cited Museveni telling Kenya's VP Raila Odinga that he understood Kenya's position since the newly-independent South Sudan is in urgent need of a functional oil pipeline within 1.5 years.
If the pipeline passed through Uganda it would give the East African country a potential outlet for its own oil production, which is expected to come online in the next year or so. Uganda had hoped to jointly construct a pipeline with South Sudan, an idea brought to the forefront by Total CEO Christophe de Margerie. Museveni’s hope is to use Uganda's planned oil refinery to process crude from South Sudan and then export it to the West via Port Mombasa in Kenya.
The Daily Monitor report also said that Museveni had earlier advised South Sudan to build its own refinery rather than having its crude oil refined in Kenya as that would create jobs for South Sudan, and that he was surprised by Juba's deal with Kenya that will have the oil resource refined in Kenya.
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