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Article: Fuel crisis in Uganda set to end after Kenya allowing in fuel trucks
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 22, 2004
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Fuel crisis in Uganda set to end after Kenya allowing in fuel
trucks
KAMPALA, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The fuel crisis in Uganda is set to
end after the Kenyan government allowed Ugandan oil companies to
truck in fuel from Nairobi by road.
The deal was made on Tuesday between the two governments in
Nairobi.
The oil refineries in Kenya are located in Mombasa on the Indian
Ocean coast and the deal to collect fuel from reserves in Nairobi is
believed to be a temporary respite to the shortage in Uganda.
"We have dealt with the Kenyan authorities. Fuel is now
available," Ugandan Minister of State for Energy Daudi Migereko was
quoted Thursday by local media as saying.
The fuel crisis in Uganda ...