African Leaders in Attendance as Dangote Launches $16 Billion Kenya Refinery
• Ruto, Museveni, Abiy, Wadagni, Savi de Tové, Obasanjo witness event •Aliko fixes 40 months to complete 700,000 bpd facility •Taps Honeywell to take part in building mega-refinery in $300m
Several African heads of state, including Ethiopa's Abiy Ahmed, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, Togo's Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové, Benin's Romuald Wadagni, and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, joined Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto to officially break ground on a massive $16 billion, 700,000-barrel per day refinery project in Lamu County, Kenya.
The project, being developed by Dangote Group, is set to be the largest refinery in East Africa and one of the continent's biggest industrial complexes. Dangote emphasized the significance of the project in advancing Africa's industrialization and reducing dependency on imported refined petroleum products. The facility's construction is expected to create about 60,000 jobs and involve various sectors such as power generation, plastics manufacturing, fertiliser, and chemical production.
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