Just Stop Oil activists have thrown orange paint over an energy company’s offices in Canary Wharf in protest at an oil pipeline running through Africa.

More than a dozen protesters sat cross-legged outside the headquarters of Total Energies, which were coated in the group’s signature orange-coloured paint, at 8am on Tuesday.

Activists held up a sign reading “Stop EACOP, stop genocide” in reference to an oil pipeline in eastern Africa which transports fuel produced from Uganda’s Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania, before being sold to world markets.

Just Stop Oil tweeted: “Four Just Stop Oil supporters have sprayed black and orange paint across Total’s offices in resistance to continued human rights violations in the construction of @EACOP_.”

The group added the action on Tuesday was carried out in solidarity with Ugandan student activists opposing the project.