据该国能源部长透露，内陆国家博茨瓦纳正在与多个来源谈判购买燃油，以保障供应免受战争相关冲击并增加选择。
Landlocked Botswana is negotiating to buy fuel from a wide range of sources to safeguard its supply from war-related shocks and increase its options, according to its energy minister.
记者 Mbongeni Mguni 和 Paul Burkhardt 报道 这位南部非洲国家的能源部长 Bogolo Kenewendo 表示，该国已与阿曼达成协议，并与其邻国以及非洲首富 Aliko Dangote 举行了会谈。Dangote 在尼日利亚拉各斯的炼油厂于 2 月份增产——恰逢伊朗战争限制了原油出货。
By Mbongeni Mguni and Paul Burkhardt The southern African nation has already struck deals with Oman and held talks with its neighbors and Aliko Dangote, the continent’s richest person, whose Lagos refinery ramped up production in February — just as the Iran war curtailed crude shipments, Bogolo Kenewendo said.
“因为我们清楚，我们绝不希望出现任何燃油不安全的情况，所以我们与 Dangote 接洽、与安哥拉接洽、与科特迪瓦接洽，以确保它们能够向我们供油，”她在首都哈博罗内接受采访时说。与阿曼达成的协议已使首批来自 OQ Trading Ltd. 的货物于本月早些时候运抵。
“Because we are clear that we never want to have any fuel insecurity, we’ve engaged Dangote, we’ve engaged Angola, we’ve engaged Cote d’Ivoire to ensure that they can supply us,” she said in an interview in Gaborone, the capital. A deal with Oman resulted in the delivery of the first shipment from OQ Trading Ltd. earlier this month.
实物燃油短缺和油价飙升是非洲国家的敏感问题，因为运输成本占据了家庭预算的很大一部分。各国政府已与 Vitol Group 等贸易商达成独家供应协议，旨在避免断供。
Physical shortages of fuel and skyrocketing pump prices are sensitive issues for nations in Africa, where transportation costs consume a large portion of household budgets. Governments have struck exclusive supply deals with traders including Vitol Group with the aim of avoiding outages.
博茨瓦纳通常通过南非接收燃油，正在寻找替代方案，包括利用 Dangote 计划修建并将从纳米比亚沃尔维斯湾港口的一个终端贯穿南部非洲的管道输入燃油。
Botswana has typically received fuel via South Africa and is looking at alternatives, including bringing it in via a pipeline which Dangote plans to build and will run from a terminal in the Namibian port of Walvis Bay through southern Africa, according to Kenewendo.
“我们已将运输路线多元化至莫桑比克和纳米比亚，为了让这些路线正常运作，我们需要在这两地拥有良好的储存设施、沿海储存设施，”她说。
“We have diversified our routes to Mozambique and to Namibia, and in order for those routes to work properly, we need to have good storage facilities, coastal storage facilities, in both areas,” she said.