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The Guardian - UK
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FOUND: People displaced by uganda oil pipeline received inadequate compensation | Mind Blowing Facts

The pipeline at Kikuube in western Uganda: pipes sit in a trench running across farmland with small wooden houses and a steep hillside in the background.
The East African crude oil pipeline (Eacop) is expected to carry 40,000 barrels of oil a day from the Kingfisher oilfield to the port of Tanga in Tanzania. Photograph: Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images

People displaced from their homes alongside the site of an oil pipeline under construction in Uganda have complained of being inadequately rehoused or compensated.

When completed, the East African crude oil pipeline (Eacop) will transport oil from the Tilenga and Kingfisher oilfields in western Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania.

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