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Pearl Sweet and bitter truth of the oil resource

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Uganda Monitor
Published on 2026-09-05 05:24:00

Uganda has officially branded its impending crude oil export as “Pearl Sweet”. It has been a long wait for Uganda’s oil to be ready for prime time in the export markets. We had long delays as foreign corporations that initially took a stake in the oil fields suddenly pulled out and sold their holdings, triggering protracted arbitration procedures over tax liabilities to the Government of Uganda.

The delays in kicking off commercial drilling for export were also due to lack of requisite physical infrastructure, arguably the most important being the nearly 1,443km East Africa…

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