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Uganda’s Crude Oil Pipeline Faces Fresh Hurdles from Campaigners

October 3, 2025 Climate & Environment

For more than a year, activists successfully pressured dozens of large banks and insurers to pull their support of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, or EACOP. In March, the project finally secured long-delayed financing from syndicate banks to fund the development of a 900-mile crude oil pipeline from Ugandan oil fields to the Tanzanian port city of Tanga. Now activists are trying to stall the project in a new way: in local and regional courts.It is the latest indication that the $5 billion project will continue to face challenges.

Oil Dreams Sour as Communities Count the Cost of EACOP

September 25, 2025 Climate & Environment

Hoima, Uganda – When Uganda discovered commercially viable oil reserves nearly two decades ago, Hoima district became the center of attention. Hotels sprang up almost overnight, land prices skyrocketed, and residents believed that prosperity was finally within reach. “People thought oil would transform our lives,” recalls John Mugisa, a hotel owner in Hoima town. “We were preparing for the boom.”

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