Nigeria, April 24 -- Africa's richest man and President/CEO of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has signalled plans to partner with Kenya and Uganda to construct a major oil refinery in Tanzania-modelled after his flagship 650,000 barrels-per-day facility in Nigeria.

The African billionaire disclosed this while speaking during a conference on infrastructure financing on Thursday in Nairobi.

Mr Dangote, who participated in the conference alongside other regional presidents, including Kenya's president, William Ruto, and Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, among others, expressed confidence that the venture would materialise, provided political backing is secured.

"If they will support the refinery, we'll build the identical one that w...