Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine objects to oil pipeline

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A planned pipeline to export oil from Uganda is likely to entrench the long rule of President Yoweri Museveni, opposition figure Bobi Wine said Tuesday, voicing his opposition to a project that's increasingly controversial over environmental concerns. Campaigners say the 897-mile heated pipeline — to link oil fields in western Uganda to neighboring Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Tanga — violates the spirit of the Paris climate accord. The oil pipeline is a sensitive issue for Museveni, who once spoke of “my oil” and whose government believes petrodollars will lift many of the country's 45 million people out of poverty. Reacting to the resolution by EU lawmakers, Museveni warned last month that if TotalEnergies "choose to listen to the EU Parliament, we shall find someone else to work with.” Opposition to the pipeline has sparked indignation among other Ugandan officials who say stopping it would injure the country’s economic interests.