Uganda and Tanzania last week gave the go-ahead for the construction of an oil pipeline between the two countries, as environmentalists continued to push for it to be scrapped. Green groups, including BankTrack, the Africa Institute for Energy Governance and 350Africa, have said that both the “extraction sites and the pipeline pose environmental and social risks to protected wildlife areas, water sources and communities throughout Uganda and Tanzania”. The 1,445km (900-mile) pipeline is designed to carry heated crude oil from Hoima in Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania.