A fuel price surge in Uganda resulted from the gridlock at Malaba border with Kenya. And this week, motorists were turned away as fuel stations ran out of petrol. PHOTO | FILE
Border tensions involving Russia and Ukraine are sending oil market shocks in East Africa even as Russia President Vladimir Putin assured the world of no war, just mutual assurance of security.
Russia’s demands have been to ensure that negotiations that will assure Moscow that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) does not expand and recruit Ukraine as a new member.
