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Construction has begun on a $23bn (£14.5bn) port project and oil refinery in south-eastern Kenya's coastal Lamu region near war-torn Somalia's border. An oil pipeline, railway and motorway will also be built linking Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia.

Ethiopia and Kenya this week signed a new deal on construction of a crude oil pipeline which would run from the Kenyan coastal town of Lamu to Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa [...] The new deal is a part of the joint infrastructure project to integrate the region under the Lamu Port- South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) economic corridor. The two leaders vowed to complete the construction of a refined oil products pipeline by the end of 2016 and pledged to speed up the construction of the Lapsset. Per the agreement, the new pipeline, which is due to be launched in December, will run through two routes: from Nakuru-Isiolo-Moyale-Awasa to Addis Ababa and the second route will be from Lamu-Isiolo-Moyale-Awasa. The latest agreement between the two neighbours came a month after Uganda abandoned a similar deal with Kenya and instead preferred to use Tanzania’s port for oil export.

Zum ersten Mal hat das ostafrikanische Kenia Erdöl exportiert. Die erste Ladung von rund 250.000 Barrel (39,75 Millionen Liter) wurde aus der Hafenstadt Mombasa verschifft, wie Ölminister John Munyes sagte. Dies sei ein "großer Meilenstein" für Kenia, twitterte das Ministerium [...] 2012 wurden die Ölreserven in Turkana im Nordwesten des Landes entdeckt. Derzeit wird ein neuer Hafen nahe Lamu am nördlichen Ende der Küste Kenias gebaut, dieser soll dann später per Pipeline mit den Ölfeldern in Turkana verbunden werden.