Kenya-Uganda fallout over fuel may not last, as they’re joined at the hip
Uganda is upset that it was kept in the dark about the negotiations around the government-to-government fuel deal between Kenya and two Gulf nations. PHOTO | NMG
The dispute between Uganda and Kenya over petroleum imports boiled over in the past week, with an angry Kampala lodging a case at the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) against Nairobi for blocking its use of its pipeline to transport fuel.
The case seeking to compel Kenya to grant Uganda permission to use the pipeline, some say, was the ultimate signal that relations between President Yoweri Museveni and Kenya’s William Ruto had broken for good.
