On April 23, 2026, at a summit in Nairobi, Aliko Dangote pledged to build a 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery in East Africa, a replica of his record-breaking Lagos plant. Kenya's President William...
On April 23, 2026, at a summit in Nairobi, Aliko Dangote pledged to build a 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery in East Africa, a replica of his record-breaking Lagos plant. Kenya's President William Ruto named the site:
Tanga, Tanzania's northern port. Oil from Uganda, the DRC, South Sudan, and Kenya would all be processed there, refined for the region.
There was one problem. Nobody had told Tanzania.
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The proposed project would position East Africa to process more of its own crude as Uganda moves closer to first oil production.
