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Local firms secure more contracts as Uganda’s oil projects matures

Hoima, Uganda | URN | The petroleum sector continued to register steady progress during the quarter ending June 30, 2026, with major oil infrastructure projects moving closer to completion while Ugandan companies secured additional contracts under the country’s national content programme. According to the latest quarterly update by the Petroleum …

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Dangote’s proposed Kenya refinery tests a new blueprint for African industrialisation

  The proposed refinery in Lamu is the company’s first effort to export the industrial model behind its Lagos refinery, potentially providing a blueprint for replicating large-scale African industrial projects across multiple countries.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Dangote Industries is attempting to replicate the industrial model behind its …

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Oil shocks are no longer so shocking

  COMMENT | NOURIEL ROUBINI | The Persian Gulf is in an unstable disequilibrium. There has been no lasting deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, because the United States and Iran remain far apart in their demands, with the Iranians holding more leverage than President Donald Trump ahead of the US …

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Oil about to flow as 2010 evicted balaalo wait for compensation

Buliisa, Uganda | URN | As Uganda races toward first oil production, promises of economic transformation are colliding with unresolved grievances from the country’s oil frontier. In Buliisa, hundreds of Balaalo pastoralists forcibly evicted in 2010 remain uncompensated, excluded from the prosperity built on the land they once bought. Enos Mubangizi …

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