thing but. there have been plenty of protests against the project the route passes directly through the nairobi national park and threatens the nature reserves existence but the protests have had little effect in kenya the chinese are pressing ahead and in uganda they are building another rail connection china s grand plan is to link the two countries with rwanda burundi and south sudan carving out a new trade network and new markets for chinese goods. crude oil ends the trading here and its highest level in more than two years prices have been steadily rising for weeks ago another boost on wednesday after an explosion at a pipeline in libya interrupted supply lines and connect some of the country s crude oil fields with the us sidra oil terminal incident might cut oil production by up to one hundred thousand barrels