Home > NGOs fail to halt massive Uganda oil project in French court

News
NGOs fail to halt massive Uganda oil project in French court

Description

For the first time, NGOs have tried to halt an oil project through a Paris court, using a 2017 law on multinationals operating outside France. However, the court dismissed the case on Tuesday. We take a closer look at the massive Tilenga project in Uganda, its more than 400 oil wells and the 1,400-kilometre-long pipeline that French oil major TotalEnergies has started to build.  

Added on the 28/02/2023 14:45:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN

To customise your video :

Or Create an account

More videos on the subject

  • French rugby players accused of rape leave Argentina after court decision

    French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou leave Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport in Buenos Aires after being released from Mendoza prison on charges of rape against a woman. An Argentine court ruled September 3 that the two players, who have been detained for nearly two months, can leave the country. IMAGES

    04/09/2024 - AFPTV - First images
  • Trial of French researcher Laurent Vinatier opens in Moscow

    The trial of a French researcher accused of violating Russia's "foreign agent" law begins in Moscow amid simmering tensions with Paris over Ukraine. Laurent Vinatier, who worked on conflict mediation for a Swiss NGO and was arrested in June, appears in a glass cage for defendants at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court as the trial opens. He faces up to five years in prison.  IMAGES

    03/09/2024 - AFPTV - First images
  • French rugby players leave Mendoza residence where they are under house arrest

    French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou leave the Mendoza residence in which they arer serving house arrest in Argentina. Auradou and Jegou, accused of rape and detained in Argentina, were released but must remain in the country until the trial is over, according to a court ruling. IMAGES

    12/08/2024 - AFPTV - First images
  • Former mayor of French town arrives at court ahead of drugs hearing

    A former Socialist party mayor, Mélanie Boulanger, arrives at Bobigny criminal court, which is due to hand down a verdict in the case against the former elected official and around 15 other people suspected of being implicated in drug trafficking in Canteleu, a town of 14,000 inhabitants in Seine-Maritime. IMAGES

    04/07/2024 - AFPTV - First images
  • Uganda court rejects petition against harsh anti-gay law

    Uganda's Constitutional Court rejects a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. "We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda's deputy chief justice and head of the court, says in the landmark ruling. IMAGES

    03/04/2024 - AFPTV - First images
  • Arrivals in French court on verdict day for Chilean in murder trial

    A van carrying Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, on trial on appeal for the murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in 2016, arrives at the Vesoul courthouse in eastern France on the day the verdict is due to be delivered. IMAGES

    21/12/2023 - AFPTV - First images

More videosNews

Watch video of  - DemainEntreprendre - épisode 12 - Label : Economie wallonne -
News

DemainEntreprendre - épisode 12

29/04/2021 12:55:32