Kenyan government officials are set to hold a meeting with their Ugandan counterparts to resolve outstanding issues with the hope of influencing the proposed crude oil pipeline route infavour of Kenya. According to petroleum principal secretary Andrew Kamau, the meeting scheduled to take place within the next ten days, will address concerns on security for the proposed pipeline, its funding and the lowest cost tariff to be applied, among other issues. This comes just days after Tanzania’s presidential press unit disclosed that President John Magufuli met Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and that the two agreed that the pipeline will pass through Tanga. “Last year, Kenya and Uganda signed a MoU on the pipeline detailing certain conditions. We are working on a meeting within 10 days between the two countries to resolve the issues,” said Mr Kamau on the sidelines of the launch of the energy journalism excellence awards sponsored by […]