No pledges for region’s pipeline, Open Sky deals

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame at the Northern Corridor Integration Project Summit in Nairobi on June 26, 2018. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG

Leaders from the region remained non-committal on key regional integration projects such as a joint pipeline and the single air market after meeting in Nairobi last week June 26, for the Northern Corridor Integration Project Summit.

One of the key projects that the leaders from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan had been pushing was the Eldoret-Kampala-Kigali Refined Petroleum Products Pipeline Project, after initially agreeing to jointly invest in it at the 11th summit in 2014. However, this doesn’t seem to be a priority any more.