Feature: Uganda fishing villages benefit from Chinese firm's oil sector investment

KAMPALA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Five tiny fishing villages on the shores of Lake Albert shared by Uganda and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are host to China's oil giant, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) which is drilling the Kingfisher oil field under the lake in Kikuube district, western Uganda.

Back in 2016, these villages were some of the hard-to-reach areas. According to Dismas Babihemaiso, a local leader, access to the villages from other parts of the country was either by boat or involved climbing up a 1.9 km escarpment as there was no motor-worthy road.