Uganda, March 29 -- Kenya has cleared the Uganda National Oil Company (Unoc) to start importing petroleum products, using their infrastructure, a minister revealed yesterday.

Unoc, which holds the government's commercial interests in the petroleum sector, received a green light a few weeks ago after President Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart, Dr William Ruto, met in the former's farm in Kisozi, Gomba District, where they resolved to sort the fuel issue once and for all.

Speaking during a handover ceremony of the incoming State Minister for Minerals, Ms Phiona Nyamutooro, at her office in Kampala, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ms Ruth Nankabirwa, said Kenya finally cleared Unoc to start the fuel importation.

"As we ...