Radio Free Asia published on 17 December 2024 an article titled "CNOOC East Africa Oil Exploitation: Forced Evictions, Sexual Violence and Human Rights Abuses" (in Chinese) by Tang Yuanyuan.
China National Offshore Oil Corporation and TotalEnergies are engaged in a major oil development project in Uganda that has been accused of numerous human rights abuses.
The East African published on 15 January 2024 an article titled "EACOP Partners Race against Time to Close $3bn Financing Deal with China Lenders" by Julius Barigaba.
Developers of the oil pipeline that will transport crude from western Uganda to Tanzania's port of Tanga remain hopeful but concerned about the willingness of China's Sinosure and Export-Import Bank to provide $3 billion in debt financing. Environmental activists have opposed the project, which would be the world's longest heated pipeline in order to permit the flow Uganda's low sulphur crude. Western banks earlier dropped out of the project as a result of opposition by the activists.
French major TotalEnergies is the lead investor in the pipeline project with a 62 percent stake, the Ugandan government and Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation each with a 15 percent stake, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation with an 8 percent stake.
The South China Morning Post published on 22 November 2023 an article titled "China Targeted by Climate Campaigners over Controversial East Africa Oil Pipeline Project" by Jevans Nyabiage.
Environmental activists in Uganda, Tanzania, DRC and elsewhere are pressuring Chinese financers to back out of an oil pipeline project that runs from Ugandan oilfields to Port Tanga on Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast. The activists say the pipeline threatens pristine ecosystems, biodiversity hotspots, water resources, and community land.
The South China Morning Post published on 21 May 2023 an article titled "China Doubles Down on Controversial African Pipeline as Western Leaders Walk Away" by Jevans Nyabiage.
Strong opposition by environmental and human rights groups have minimized Western lending for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline from Uganda's Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania. China's Export-Import Bank and several other Chinese banks have agreed to finance the controversial project.
The New York Times published on 14 March 2023 a feature article titled "An Oil Rush Threatens National Splendors Across East Africa" by Abdi Latif Dahir with numerous photographs by Arlette Bashizi.
A multibillion-dollar oil drilling and pipeline project is displacing thousands of people in Uganda and Tanzania, and ravaging wildlife habitat. The oil drilling, which is already underway, occurs along Lake Albert in Uganda. The pipeline will go south from Lake Albert through Uganda and then continue the length of Tanzania through game parks to the Indian Ocean port of Tanga. France's TotalEnergies and China National Offshore Oil Corporation are managing the project.
The New York Times published on 8 April 2022 a commentary titled "This 900-Mile Crude Oil Pipeline Is a Bad Deal for My Country--and the World" by Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate justice activist.
The author offers the environmental arguments against the 900-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline to be built by French and Chinese companies from Kabaale, Uganda to Tanga, Tanzania on the Indian Ocean coast. Instead, the author argues that East Africans should focus on renewable energy.
