No longer a fence-sitter, Tanzania has been very busy with things East African
Tanzania has been very busy with East African things. It is there at the centre of all the big ongoing and upcoming joint points of East African Community states. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG
In the past few days, Tanzania has been very busy with East African things. Early in the week, it approved the construction of the 1,443-kilometre heated East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop), which will transport crude from oil fields in Uganda’s Lake Albert region to the Tanzanian port of Tanga in the Indian Ocean.
The Tanzanian government is not known to be a good environmental babysitter, so it is not surprising that it dismissed the loud human rights and environmental concerns about Eacop as “propaganda”. And that was that.
