The East African Crude Oil Pipeline, set to launch in April 2021 after Tanzanian President John Magufuli’s death, has been hugely controversial – from the residents along the 1,443 km route who say their lives are on hold and homes crumbling, to the non-governmental organisations who urged banks not to finance it.

Tanzania and Uganda’s governments have been accused of ignoring environmental concerns and lacking transparency, with warnings of polluting lakes and rivers and destroying invaluable biodiversity.

Today allAfrica published two opinion pieces: one by the Africa Energy Chamber’s NJ Ayuk who writes that “Greenpeace and Western Anti-African energy groups are wrong”, and Amos Wemanya, Greenpeace Africa Campaigner’s response – that investments in fossil fuels “are a dead end”.