Tanzania, May 16 -- Kenya and Uganda have agreed to jointly extend the oil pipeline from Eldoret to Uganda in a deal that will see Kampala import refined petroleum products directly through Nairobi.

The extension, Nairobi says, will facilitate trade relations between the two nations.

The two countries also signed a tripartite agreement paving the way for the Uganda National Oil Company to import petroleum products through the port of Mombasa.

"The agreement on the importation and transit of refined petroleum products through Kenya to Uganda whose signing we've just witnessed enables Uganda National Oil Company Limited to import refined petroleum products directly from producers in different jurisdictions thus bringing to an end the cha...