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Tanzania and Uganda have put pen to paper for the construction of a 1,403-kilometre pipeline for transporting crude oil.

The line will run from Uganda’s Hoima area to Tanga Port in Tanzania. Presidents John Magufuli and Yoweri Museveni have signed an interim communique to set the project in motion.

The contract will be formally signed at a later date. Aside from its economic advantages, President Museveni said one of the major reasons influencing his choice of Tanzania as co-host of the pipeline was Mwalimu Julius Nyerere’s staunch pan-African and the push for an East African political federation.