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A call for civil disobedience against the privatisation of peasant seeds

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2 years ago

January 10, 2024

For thousands of years, communities have nurtured and taken care of the crops and seeds that sustain us. Seeds are part of human history, work and knowledge systems, and our relationship with them is a never-ending conversation of care. This mutual nurturing has given rise to specific ways of cultivating, sharing, feeding and healing that are linked to community norms, responsibilities, obligations and rights.

People’s freedom to work with seeds hinges on the responsibility of communities who defend and maintain them, who care for them and enjoy the goods they provide. And this freedom is under threat.

Today there is a strong assault on people’s seeds. It comes from the drive to regulate, standardise and privatise seeds to expand markets for corporations. This is done through plant breeders’ rights and patent laws, as well as seed certification schemes, variety registers and marketing laws. Whatever the form, it is about legalising abuse, dispossession and devastation.

Today’s attack on seeds aims to put an end to peasant and Indigenous agriculture, an end to independent food production. Where peasant food sovereignty prevails, it is difficult to turn us into cheap and dependent labour, people without territory and without history. We face a coordinated political and technocratic crusade to impose uniform and rigid laws and regulations in favour of agroindustry. There is a determined effort to discredit people’s historical practices and ancestral indigenous peasant knowledge in order to make us dependent on corporations. Communities who have resisted have faced criminalisation, repression, and even imprisonment

Whether in Africa, Asia, Europe or the Americas, communities are fighting this pressure and we are united and mobilised to actively support them.

– In Benin, social movements have stopped the national parliament from discussing a law proposal to join UPOV, the Union for the Protection of New Plant Varieties. UPOV sets global standards for seed privatisation in favour of transnationals like Monsanto/Bayer, Syngenta and Corteva.

– In Guatemala, Indigenous peoples are in the streets demanding that their government’s proposed bill to adopt UPOV standards be scrapped as well. They call it “the Monsanto Law” and its rejection is part of an ongoing nationwide strike.

– In El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, groups are working together to prevent the adoption of a new ruling that would open the doors to genetically modified seeds in all three countries at once.

– In Thailand, civil society organisations are fighting hard against free trade agreements that impose UPOV instead of protecting the rights of farmers and other rural communities to maintain and use their local seeds.

-In Indonesia, farmers and civil society organisations continue to reject UPOV, which is being imposed through free trade negotiations and under pressure from countries like Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4pD_yZG1lc

-In the Philippines, farmers, scientists, concerned citizens and civil society organizations filed an environmental case to the Supreme Court to stop the commercial propagation of the genetically modified golden rice that is patented by Syngenta and other agrochemical corporations. Moreover, Filipino farmers are spearheading the fight for the recognition and strengthening of farmers’ rights to seeds and farmers’ seed system by forwarding seed commoning as an alternative to the UPOV-like laws in the country.

– Internationally, peasant and other social movements are also trying to get the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) translated into enforceable national laws.

We are determined to resist the dispossession of seeds from the hands of the people. We vigorously oppose registration, certification, patenting and marketing schemes, treaties, conventions, national and international laws and legal frameworks such as UPOV and other seed laws that promote the dispossession of the common goods and knowledge of our peoples.

We, as peoples in resistance, guardians of the seeds, will continue keeping, sharing and reproducing our seeds so our presence will germinate from our roots.

Signatories (Only organisation name displayed):

ABSDD/Slow Food	Burkina Faso
Acción Comunal	Colombia
ACDIC	Cameroun
AFSA	Africa region
agrarinfo.ch	Switzerland
AgriMovement	Lebanon
AIFFRS	India
AKban Mague	Colombia
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation	USA
A lo Verde Escuela de Huertos Agroecologicos	Ecuador
Alliance pour le Développement Durable et pour l’Environnement	Côte d’Ivoire
Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture	India
Amigos unidos con amor hojas de agricultura	Colombia
Anti-mining struggle committee	India.
ANAGAVEC	Ecuador
APBREBES	Global/Switzerland
Aravali Bachao	India
ARBA (Asociación para la recuperación del bosque autóctono)	Spain
Aseas	Colombia
Asoproorgànicos	Colombia
Association des Jeunes Agriculteurs de la Casamance	Senegal
Asociación de mujeres unidas por el desarrollo juanchopuquio encañada	Peru
Asociación Ecoaldea Aldeafeliz	Colombia
Asociacion Agroecologia y Fe	Bolivia
Asociación PROBIVIR	Colombia
Association pour la Défense de l’environnement et des Consommateurs (ADEC)	Sénégal
Asociación Shuar Sharup de cuidado y protección de semillas.	Ecuador
Association Sénégalaise des Producteurs de Semences Paysannes	Senegal
Association Tunisienne de Permaculture	Tunisie
Atukpamba y Red de Guardianes de Semillas de Ecuador	Ecuador
Audace Institut Afrique	Côte d’Ivoire
Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF)	Bangladesh
Badabon Sangho	Bangladesh
Bendito Prashadam	Colombia
BioThai	Thailand
Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya	Kenya
Biodiversity Information Box	Japan
Biowatch South Africa	South Africa
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU)	India
Building Futures	USA
Cabildo Indígena de la cuenca del Río Guabas	Colombia
Cámara Verde de la Amazorinoquía	Colombia
Campesinos construyendo futuro	Colombia
Caritas Diocese of Malakal (CDoM)	South Sudan
Casa de semillas El Origen	Colombia
CCPA	Sénégal
CEIP	Colombia
CENDA	Bolivia
CERAI	Spain
Chile Mejor sin TLC	Chile
Chilis on Wheels	United States
C.netzero	DRC
City Mouse Garden	United States
COAG	Spain
Coati	Colombia
Cocapeutas Cooperatica Mujeres Medicina	Peru
Colectiva de mujeres Muralistas	Colombia
Colectivo Agroecológico Del Ecuador	Ecuador
Colectivo Cultura Saravita	Colombia
Colectivo por la Autonomía / Saberes Locales	México
Colombia Humana	Colombia
Colectivo Minga de soberanía alimentaria deChia	Colombia
Colectivo Semilla Negra	México
Colectivo Xiegua	Colombia
Comité de Derechos Humanos de la Sierra Norte de Veracruz	México
Comité Ouest Africain des semences Paysannes	West Africa
Commission of Charity and Social Actions – Caritas Dalat	Viet Nam
Comunidad Moneda Luna	Colombia
Comunidad Rural de la Buitrera	Colombia
comunidad kishuar Amazanga	Ecuador
Cooperativa Huacal	México
Coordinadora Ambiental Popular de Santa Rosa de Cabal	Colombia
COPAGEN	West Africa
CORDES MAELA RENAF	Colombia
Corpalabra	Colombia
CORPONIMA	Colombia
Corporación Aluna	Colombia
Corporación Creare Social	Colombia
Corporación Compromiso	Colombia
Corporacion Frutos de Utopía	Colombia
Corporación Síntesis	Colombia
Corredor biológico Montes del aguacate costa Rica	Costa Rica
CREATE	INDIA
CSRD	India
CSFdeepinnerMusic	Netherlands
Cuatro Rumbos Para Ti	México
CULTIVISA	Colombia
Cultivo Lo Nuestro	Colombia
Custodios de Semillas Ancestrales	Colombia
Darbar Sahitya Sansada	India
DESMI, A.C.	México
Ecofeminisarte	Colombia
Ecosinergia	Colombia
EdibleBristol	UK
El Jilote, SPG	México
Enda Pronat	Senegal
ESAL	Colombia
Escuela de Líderesas del Ecuador, y mujeres por el cambio, y defensa por la salud de los pueblos	Ecuador
Evobiota Consultancy Corporation	Philippines
Extinction Rebellion València	España
FAEB / Federation Agroecologique du Benin	BENIN
FIAN Indonesia	Indonesia
Finca Carrizales	Colombia
Frente de lucha Ambiental Delia Villalba	Uruguay
Friends of the Earth Nigeria	Nigeria
Fundacion Ambiental	Colombia
Fundacion Avá	Argentina
Fundación Julia Márquez	Colombia
Fundacion Biosistemas Integrados	Uruguay
Fundación la COSMOPOLITANA	Colombia
Fundacion Luna Arte	Colombia
Fundación Runakawsai	Ecuador
Gealac	Peru
Gender Justice	Zambia
Glesi	Netherlands
Good Food Community	Philippines
GRAIN	International
Grassroots klimaatboerderij	Belgium
Grassroots Trust	Zambia
Groupe d’action Écologique pour le développement intégral	RDC
Grow Local Colorado	United States
Grupo Allpa	Ecuador
Grupo Raquira Silvestre SAS	Colombia
Grupo Semillas	Colombia
HEKS Swiss Church Cooperation	Switzerland
Humaine	Belgique
Huerta comunitaria y Jardín Polinizador Con Ojos de Amor	Colombia
Huerta Marsella	Bogota
Huertas Swa Cho	Colombia
Huerto Agroecológico Atemajac	México
Incredible Edible Lambeth	United Kingdom
Indigenous Women and Girls Initiative	Kenya
Instituto Agroecológico Latinoamericano México	México
Instituto Humanitas	Perú
ISRA	Sénégal
JAL Diviso	Colombia
Joint Action for Water	India
Junta de agua vereda laureles	Colombia
JVE Côte d’Ivoire	Côte d’Ivoire
Kikandwa Environmental Association	Uganda
Laboratorio de Tierras	Ecuador
La Via Campesina East and Southern Africa	Zimbabwe
La Tucaneta	Colombia
Lapapaya	Colombia
La Cité Idéale	Burkina Faso
La Cuica Cósmica	Ecuador
La Savia	Colombia
Les amis de la Terre	Togo
Lideresa social	Colombia
Kansas interfaith Action	USA
Karnataka State Farmers Association (KRRS)	India
Malaysian Food Sovereignty Forum (FKMM)	Malaysia
MASIPAG	Philippines
Mesa Departamental de Diálogo y Concertación Agraría, Étnica y Popular de Nariño
Methods Lab	United States
MINGAnet	Colombia
Mink’a Comunicación	Argentina
Mirachik	Ecuador
Mouvement d’Action Paysanne	Belgium
Mouvement des jeunes pour l’agriculture,l’agroécologique,et Agro pastorale (M.J.A.A.P)	R.D.Congo
Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR)	Sri Lanka
Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina y el Caribe-MAELA	Colombia
Movimiento Campesino de Papaye	Haïti
Movimiento pacto histórico	Colombia
Movimiento Rural Cristiano	España
Mujeres que reverdecen	Colombia
Munsenga cooperative	Zambia
National Alliance for Agroecology The Gambia	Gambia
NeverEndingFood.org	Malawi
Ntaamba Hiinta Development Trust	Zambia
Ofraneh	Honduras
ojoVoz	Mexico
OK Seed Project	Japan
ONG YVEO	Côte d’Ivoire
Organisation des Ruraux pour une Agriculture Durable	Benin
Organización campesinos construyendo futuro (OCCF)	Colombia
Panitar Pally Unnyan Samiti	India
Paralegal Alliance Network	Zambia
Perkumpulan INISIATIF	Indonesia
Perkumpulan Kediri Bersama Rakyat (KIBAR)	Indonesia
Plataforma del País Valencià per un tren públic, social i sostenible que vertebre el territori i refrede el planeta	Spain
Primavera Zur	Colombia
Promotores ambientales del eje cafetero	Colombia
Proyecto agroecologico familiar y educativo ambiental sueño verde	Colombia
PTR Associates	USA
Punarchith	India
RADD	Cameroun
Radio Bénin	Bénin
RECHERCHE SANS FRONTIÈRES RSF	RD Congo
Red de Agricultores Urbanos Bogotá	Colombia
Red de consumo Responsable y consciente	Colombia
Red Colombiana de Agricultura Biológica de Antioquía	Colombia
Red de Custodia de Semillas Criollas y Nativas (CESTA)	Colombia
Red de foresteia análoga	Ecuador
Red de huertos agroecológicos de Cali	Colombia
Red de huertos urbanos	Colombia
Red de Resersvas / Resnatur	Colombia
Red de semillas criollas y nativas	Uruguay
Red de semillas libres de Colombia	Colombia
Red Distrital de Agricultores	Colombia
Red en defensa del Maiz	México
Red Kunagua	Colombia
Redmac	Colombia
REDMUNORCA	Colombia
Red de Pueblos Hermanos	Colombia
Red de jóvenes por la Agrobiodiversidad	Perú
Red Yuma	Colombia
Regional Schools and Colleges Permaculture	Kenya
Reservorio de Semillas Techotiva	Colombia
RESNATUR – Red de reservas	Colombia
Reseau JINUKUN	Benin
Resource Institute of Social Education	India
Salt Films	India
Sanwad	India
Save Earth Save Life Movement	India
Save Our Rice Campaign	India
Secretaria de educación de Bogotá	Colombia
Seed In A Box	Lebanon
Semillas de Nuestra Tierra	México
Semilla Nativa Colombia	Colombia
Semillas de Identidad – SWISSAID	Colombia
Serikat Buruh Migran Indonesia Kalbar	Indonesia
SERVIHUERTA	Colombia
Siyada network	Arab région
Société civile environnementale et agro-rurale du Congo	RDC
Sociedad libre y Neocampesina	Colombia
Soil if Cultures	New Zealand
South India Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements	India
SSN	England
Ssfafrica.com	Zambia and Africa
Sukrutham	India
Synergie Nationale des Paysans et Riverains du Cameroun	Cameroun
Tanzania Alliance for Biodiversity	Tanzania
Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam	India
The Ecocene Project	India
The Failing Farmer	Tunisia
The Hummingbird Foundation	Kenya
The Sixth Element School	India
The Utopian Seed Project	USA
Tierra Fertil	Colombia
Tinto to go	Colombia
Tlalixpan, sobre la faz de la tierra	México
Unillanos	Colombia
Unión de Organizaciones de la Sierra Juárez Oaxaca	México
Union Démocratique de l’Agriculture	Maroc
Unión de Organizaciones de la Sierra Juárez Oaxaca	México
Unión nacional de organizaciones regionales campesinas autónomas (UNORCA)	Mexico
Union Régionale des Associations Paysannes de DIOURBEL URAPD	Senegal
Uruguay Soberano	Uruguay
Waia Reserva Sagrada	Colombia
We Are the Solution	Senegal
West africa sea turtles conservation network	Côte d’Ivoire
WFDFFM	Indonesia
Wild Webcap	Australia
Women’s Alliance MN	United States
WMW/ATPA	Tunisie
xermoladas	Spain
Youth talk	RDC
Yuva Kaushal Vikas Mandal	India
Zambian Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity	Zambia

Source: GRAIN

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REC25 & EXPO Ends with a call on Uganda to balance conservation and livelihood

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By: Witness Radio team

The week of 20th September 2025, Uganda hosted the Renewable Energy Conference 2025 to discuss and advance the clean energy agenda. Its purpose this time was to foster collaboration among the government, the private sector, and development partners to transform energy systems. Still, the development partners are calling on the government of Uganda to balance conservation and livelihoods.

The Renewable Energy Conference (REC) 2025, which focused on clean cooking to meet the national target of 50% access by 2030, provided an opportunity for representatives of the German and European Union embassies to underscore the importance of balancing environmental conservation and livelihoods.

The German Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Matthias Schauer, stated that “transforming systems for livelihoods and conservation” are essential elements in the renewable energy sector.

“The theme, Transforming Energy Systems for Livelihoods and Conservation, I consider these two elements to be essential: livelihoods and conservation. Without energy, it is tough to establish livelihoods, but without conservation, you will be destroying them again sooner or later. They need to be well-balanced.” Matthias Schauer stated

He says, “At the same time, they strengthened local capacity, promoted innovative financing mechanisms to expand access to clean energy. Our partnership reflects a shared vision, unlocking Uganda’s potential, and that potential is huge. Fostering inclusive growth and ensuring that the benefits of energy transformation reach all communities, including remote and refugee hosting areas.” Matthias Schauer said.

He said that Germany’s goal is to advance access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and clean energy for all, in line with Sustainable Development Goal No. 7, while fostering local ownership.

The European Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Jan Sadek, on the other hand, emphasized that “the moment has come to move from dialogue to action. We are confident that Uganda will continue to lead by example, and Team Europe is ready to contribute to turning the insights from this conference into tangible impacts.” This urgent call to action should resonate with all stakeholders, highlighting the pressing need for change.

Jan also stated that, “The time for coordinated and accelerated investment in solutions to phase out the unsustainable use of firewood and charcoal is now. Together, we have a real opportunity to make a significant difference, and the EU is committed to contributing its part.” This commitment from the EU should reassure all stakeholders about the support they can expect.

While the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa Sentamu, stated that this year’s energy conference discussion has deepened their collaboration and collective understanding of what it truly means to transform energy systems from a livelihoods and conservation perspective.

As the Transition journey continues, Nankabirwa expressed confidence that through the performance reviews of the Ministry’s sustainable energy and extractive development programs, they have collectively assessed progress made under Development Plan 3 and have identified clear pathways for accelerated implementation of National Development Plan 4.

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StopEACOP Coalition warns TotalEnergies and CNOOC investors of escalating ‘financial and reputational’ Risks

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The StopEACOP Coalition has issued a warning to shareholders and bondholders of TotalEnergies and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), urging them to reconsider their funding of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) due to the companies’ growing self-financing of the project that exposes shareholders and bondholders to gross financial and reputational risks.

In a public statement released alongside its Finance Risk Briefing Update No. 6, the coalition revealed that the two energy giants have quietly decided to increase their financial commitments to the $5.6 billion pipeline, stepping in as lenders to their own project. This move reflects the collapse of external financing for EACOP amid widespread rejection by international banks and insurers due to the project’s environmental, human rights, and climate risks. These risks include environmental, human rights concerns, and climate-related issues.

According to EACOP Limited’s 2024 annual report, TotalEnergies and CNOOC have provided additional facilities through shareholder loans to fund what remains of the construction budget.

Initially projected to cost up to $3.5 billion and intended to be financed with 40% equity and 60% debt, the project’s cost has since increased to a whopping $5.6 billion. The two companies have already injected roughly $2.8 billion in equity and secured around $755 million in external loans, leaving a debt gap of approximately $2 billion. Currently, TotalEnergies and CNOOC are moving to cover that shortfall themselves, bringing their total funding to about $4.8 billion, or 86% of the project’s total cost, more than triple what they had initially planned to use.

“This is a shocking example of developers financing their own controversial project after being rejected by global financial institutions. It shows that the EACOP is no longer financially viable without corporate self-funding and that investors in these companies are now directly financing one of the most destructive fossil fuel projects in the world,” Reads part of the statement.

The coalition argues that by turning inward for financing, TotalEnergies and CNOOC have transferred financial, legal, and reputational risks to their own shareholders and bondholders.

“Now, to keep the project alive, TotalEnergies and CNOOC are turning inward, relying on their own balance sheets and, by extension, your capital. The situation increases your financial risk, deepens your exposure to the project’s growing controversy, and links your investment portfolios even more directly to the environmental destruction, human rights abuses, and climate chaos that EACOP represents,” the statement says.

“This means that institutional investors holding TotalEnergies or CNOOC securities are now directly linked to the project’s growing controversies, from land grabs and community displacement to the threat it poses to climate goals.”

EACOP is a 1,443-kilometer pipeline stretching from Uganda’s Lake Albert oilfields to the Tanzanian coast, which has faced heavy opposition since its inception. This opposition is due to threats to biodiversity and the environment, as well as to people’s displacement among others.

It is from this that the STOPEACOP coalition is calling for active engagement with TotalEnergies and CNOOC to jointly address human rights and environmental risks and identify a time-bound escalation strategy, where investors publicly set deadlines for the companies to act, backed by credible consequences such as voting against board members or divesting from the companies altogether.

“We are therefore calling upon the shareholders and bondholders of TotalEnergies and CNOOC to act with integrity and foresight, in line with their responsibilities under the UNGPs and the OECD Guidelines, to avoid contributing to severe human rights and environmental impacts associated with the operations of your portfolio companies,” reads the statement.

In the last three years, over 20 major banks and 23 insurers have publicly ruled out support for the EACOP project, citing misalignment with global climate targets and reputational concerns.

The Finance Risk Briefing shows that 43 banks have ruled out financing for the 1,443 km pipeline since the project began.

Governments and international organizations have also faced mounting pressure to intervene, as civil society movements in Uganda, Tanzania, and abroad intensify opposition to its implementation due to its adverse effects.

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12 anti-Eacop activists decry delayed justice after spending 100 days on remand

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October 23, 2025

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Twelve environmental activists who were arrested during protests against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) in August 2025 have decried delayed justice after their fourth bail application was rejected.

The presiding Senior Principal Grade One, Magistrate Winnie Nankya Jatiko, at Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court, said the suspects’ case was in an advanced stage and therefore, there was no need to grant them bail despite the fact that they have spent nearly three months on remand.

The activists, most of whom are students from various universities in the country under their umbrella body, Students Against Eacop Uganda, an environmental pressure group, were arrested on August 1 after staging a peaceful protest near Stanbic Bank in Kampala, over what they described as the bank’s continued funding of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop). They were first arraigned in court on charges of being a public nuisance and remanded to Luzira till September 5.

The suspects, who include Teopista Nakyambadde, Shammy Nalwadda, Dorothy Asio, Shafik Kalyango, Habibu Nalungu, Noah Kafiiti, Ismail Zziwa, Ivan Wamboga, Akram Katende, Baker Tamale, Keisha Ali and Mark Makoba, accused the bank of funding the ongoing construction of the 1,443km Eacop, claiming that the project is destructive to the environment.

They reappeared before the same court on August 18, and Ms Nankya denied them bail because some of them were perennial protestors who had repeatedly abused their bail terms.

She, on September 5, declined to hear their fresh bail application and adjourned the court session to October 1 after hearing evidence of three state witnesses.

Some of the state witnesses said they had seen some of the activists participating in more than one anti-Eacop protest.

Mr Kato Tumusiime, the lead lawyer for the activists, condemned the decision by the magistrate to rejects his clients’ bail application and described it as absurd and unfortunate.

“Failing to entertain the bail application prejudices the rights of the accused guaranteed by our Constitution, and the same is not only harsh but also illegal and unacceptable. It suggests that the activists have been found guilty before even hearing their case,” he said

He added, “This is unacceptable in our legal regime. We must fight for our judiciary to be independent and act in line with the law and not to please the people in power.”

The magistrate fixed November 6 when she will rule whether they have a case to answer.

Background

The activists have on several occasions protested in Kampala streets, including at Parliament, the French and Chinese Embassies, Stanbic and KCB Banks, over their substantial support for the Eacop project, which they say is harmful. This time, the bank announced its funding after key financiers withdrew.

However, the government and key stakeholders have dismissed the activists’ claims, defending their participation in the project, which is expected to transform the country’s economy once oil begins flowing.

The $5 billion (Shs18 trillion) EACOP project is a 1,443 km pipeline that will transport Uganda’s waxy crude oil from the oil fields in mid-western Uganda to Tanga port on the Indian Ocean in Tanzania.

The project is jointly owned by French oil giant, TotalEnergies (62 percent), the Uganda National Oil Company Limited (UNOC – 15 percent), China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC – 8 percent), and Tanzania’s Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC – 15 percent) under EACOP Ltd.

Source: Monitor

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