{"id":38973,"date":"2026-07-07T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38973"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:27:59","slug":"ugandan-farmers-launch-uk-case-against-eacop-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ugandan-farmers-launch-uk-case-against-eacop-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan farmers launch UK case against EACOP pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ugandan farmers launched a case in the United Kingdom&#8217;s (UK) \u200bHigh Court on Tuesday against \u200cthe East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), seeking to apply Ugandan constitutional, \u200benvironmental and climate law \u200bto EACOP, the project&#8217;s \u2060UK-registered company.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The claim, filed before \u200bthe pipeline begins operations, asks \u200bthe court to enforce Uganda&#8217;s legal protections against a company incorporated in \u200bEngland and Wales.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The lawsuit targets \u200bEACOP, a 1 443 kilometres pipeline that would transport \u200ccrude \u2060from Uganda&#8217;s oilfields to Tanzania&#8217;s coast.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The project is majority-owned by French energy company \u200bTotalEnergies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The claimants \u200bsay \u2060a successful ruling could ultimately prevent the pipeline \u200bfrom becoming operational.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They \u200balso \u2060say the project would affect more than 100 000 people through \u2060land \u200bacquisition and cross \u200bcritical freshwater systems and protected habitats.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16035,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-38973","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ugandan farmers launched a case in the UK","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38974,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38973\/revisions\/38974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}