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It will be able to store 580,000 cubic metres of chairman of the NOC’s gas and renewable
motor fuels (gasoline and diesel) as well as energy division, told Rádio Nacional de Angola
102,000 cubic metres of LPG. The project may (RNA) that the project would significantly
create as many as 3,500 new jobs during the con- expand the country’s LPG production capacity.
struction stage. He indicated that the new facility would be able
Sonangol has said that the terminal will be to produce about twice as much as Sonangol’s
built in several phases, with the first phase due existing LPG plant at the Carlos Pinta Nogueira
to come online before the end of 2022. OECI, for complex in Luanda.
its part, said it expected to begin construction De Barros did not say when construction
before the end of September. was slated to begin or how much the project
would cost. He did state, though, that the LPG
LPG plant plant was anticipated to remain in operation for
In related news, a Sonangol representative 30 years. The facility will initially serve Ango-
revealed last week that the company intended la’s domestic fuel markets and may expand later
to build a LPG plant adjacent to the Barro do into neighbouring countries, he added. “We
Dande terminal. have ambitions of pursuing the Namibian and
Manuel de Barros, the executive committee Zambian markets,” he told RNA. ™

Truckers’ strike leads to fuel

shortages in South Sudan

SOUTH SUDAN SOUTH Sudan has begun experiencing fuel goods it receives by road, VOA said.
shortages following protests by truck drivers The protests began on August 23, when
over inadequate security along the roads used Kenyan and Ugandan truckers began staging
to import petroleum products and other goods. strikes at customs posts near the South Suda-
According to a report from Voice of America nese border.
(VOA), fuel supplies have been dwindling over On that day, drivers heading for the Elegu
the last two weeks because few tanker trucks border crossing in northern Uganda explained
have been crossing the border. As a result, prices their refusal to proceed by noting that fuel and
are soaring. Gasoline and diesel had been selling freight shipments had been the target of many
for about SSP300-320 ($2.30-2.46) per litre as of attacks along the road between Nimule, a South
September 3, but rates had climbed to SSP700- Sudanese town on the other side of the border,
800 ($5.37-6.14) per litre as of September 6. and the capital city of Juba. They also com-
Meanwhile, long queues have become com- plained about inadequate security along the
mon at filling stations. VOA quoted residents of road between Juba and Yei, a town about 35 km
Juba as saying that they were having to wait in from South Sudan border with the Democratic
line for hours because they had no other option, Republic of Congo (DRC).
even though prices were climbing quickly. Kenyan truckers also began striking on
Gasoline and diesel are not the only goods August 23, just one day after two Kenyan citizens
in short supply. South Sudan is also reporting were killed in an attack along the Nimule-Juba
shortages of the vegetables and other market road.

Elegu border crossing, shown in May 2020 (Photo: Ugandan Government)

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