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✏️Peculiarities of East African Bureaucracy Building a giant pipeline without paperwork — no problem. Listening to human rights defenders — “your application was filed on the wrong form.” 🌐 On 27 November 2025, the Appellate Division of the East African Court of Justice upheld an earlier decision to dismiss a case filed in 2020 by civil society groups from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, which challenged the construction of the EACOP oil pipeline running from Uganda to Tanzania’s coast. ❗️ While the petition raised concerns about risks to the Lake Victoria Basin, the lack of approval from Uganda’s National Environment Management Authority, missing environmental impact assessments at the start of construction, the appellate judges cited a violation of technical filing procedures. ⏩ According to independent research and media reports, the pipeline — being built by France’s TotalEnergies and China’s CNOOC — has displaced around 13,000 people in Uganda and Tanzania. National authorities and courts are even more favourable toward the oil giants and their project. There is nothing left to hope for — only to wait until the roughly 1,500 kilometres of land in Uganda and Tanzania turn into one long strip of oil spills, just like Nigeria's Ogoniland. Devils Below