Uganda- Tanzania Oil Pipeline Sparks Climate Row

Uganda and Tanzania are set to begin work on a massive crude oil pipeline a year after the International Energy Agency warned that the world risked not meeting its climate goals if new fossil fuel projects were not stopped. <br />The two East African countries say their priority is economic development. <br />Some of the inhabitants of the Chongoleani peninsula, some 18km north of Tanzania's port city of Tanga, sold their land for compensation two years ago, after the government signed a deal to construct a pipeline to transport crude oil from the shores of Lake Albert in western Uganda