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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Ngo reports human rights disaster at uganda oil project - Caught on Camera

The Kingfisher oil project is operated by China's CNOOC (Credit: AFP)

A massive oil project in Uganda co-owned by French group TotalEnergies and China's CNOOC is mired in reports of sexual violence, forced evictions and environmental damage, climate activists said Monday.

The $10 billion investment includes drilling for oil in the Lake Albert area in northwestern Uganda and building a 1,443-kilometre (900-mile) heated pipeline to ship the crude to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Tanga.

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