ENERGY

On July 18th President Yoweri Museveni launched a fuel storage facility on Lake Victoria that is set to boost Uganda's fuel security and reduce dependence on road transportation of oil in the landlocked country.The facility, owned by Lake Victoria Logistics, is located at Bugiri-Bukasa in Wakiso district and has 14 tanks with a collective storage capacity of 70m litres.The facility has a 256-metre-long jetty and two tanker ships each with a cargo capacity of 4.5m litres.Capt Mike Mukula, the chairman of Lake Victoria Logistics said the facility would reduce the cost of transport between Kisumu, in Kenya, and Uganda.Speaking at the opening ceremony, Museveni also pledged to improve the road network in the area, in order to ease transportation to markets in neighbouring countries such as South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo.(Nile Post 18/7) IN BRIEFGeneral, Liberia: The authorities indicted the