{"id":12143,"date":"2023-11-01T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T08:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2023-11-01T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T08:33:49","slug":"uganda-seeks-to-cut-oil-deal-with-kenya-over-increase-in-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12143","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Seeks To Cut Oil Deal With Kenya Over increase in prices."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda&#8217;s Ministry of Energy and Mineral has proposed a bill in parliament that seeks to cut reliance on Kenya for importation of its petroleum products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement from the ministry on Tuesday, the land-locked nation seeks to cease its reliance on Kenya to access petroleum products citing exposure to &#8220;occasional supply vulnerabilities&#8221; and an increase in pump prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These vulnerabilities paused additional challenges, resulting in Uganda receiving relatively costly products and ultimately impacting the retail pump prices,&#8221; read part of the statement adding that the move has been prompted by Kenya&#8217;s government-to-government importation deal with UAE and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mombasa_port-og_image-1-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mombasa_port-og_image-1-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mombasa_port-og_image-1-980x551.webp 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mombasa_port-og_image-1-480x270.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s Ministry of Energy and Mineral has proposed a bill in parliament that seeks to cut reliance on Kenya for importation of its petroleum products. In a statement from the ministry on Tuesday, the land-locked nation seeks to cease its reliance on Kenya to access petroleum products citing exposure to &#8220;occasional supply vulnerabilities&#8221; and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Mombasa_port-og_image.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12146,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions\/12146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}