Truckers boycott Mombasa 

Mombasa Port is experiencing a new cargo pileup and trucks as transporters park their trucks, protesting enforcement of the new axle rule at weighbridges.

Reports say that over 500 trucks were parked along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway, further abetting traffic congestion problem.

The new rules state that loading limits be based on the axle weight of a truck instead of the gross weight, but the truckers are opposed to this, but add that implementation was done without notice to them. 

 

KCCA unveils development plan

Kampala Capital City Authority launches the Kampala Physical Development Plan aimed at having a modern, organized and attractive city.

Physical Planning head Joseph Semambo says this will expand the central business district, create freeways, urban quarters and business parks among others.

A team of Israeli contractors has been contracted to develop the plan that will initially cover an 8-km radius with an end result of a balanced, functional city. 

 

Northern Transport Corridor automatic cargo monitor launched

Transport from Mombasa to and through Uganda is set to ease after the launch of the Transport Observatory Project that detects the causes of delays.

The project electronically monitors and cites problems on the highway, giving information on delays, transport costs, capacity and infrastructure quality.

Each truck will be fitted with a Global Positioning System and whenever it is stopped, the driver will fill a form to indicate why he was stopped.  

 

Rwanda to issue visas at entry points

Entry into Rwanda by African travelers is set to ease starting next month, after the country allowed the acquisition of visas at its entry points.

The decision aims to overcome the hustle travelers go through at embassies to acquire visas, and increase trade, tourism and transit business in Rwanda.

Uganda’s high commissioner to Rwanda Richard Kabonero hails this as big service to the East African Community integration process.

Police is heavily deployed at Makerere University following a tip off that the students at the institution are planning a strike over the transport situation at the University.

The students are angry at the administration decision barring taxis and boda bodas inside the University due to security concerns.

The students say this is inconveniencing to them as they have to walk long distances to theit lecture rooms.

Shaban Senkubuge is the guild president at Makerere University. He says they warned the administration that students would not be OK with the move, in vain.

The students are now saying they will not attend classes until the matter is addressed.

Radio one has just received information that an emergence meeting has been called for the students’ Guild, the police and University administration.

Government iis sending all the required relief items to Bududa responding to an outcry by relief and humanitarian agencies about acute shortages.

Yesterday humanitarian agencies indicated that those displaced require drugs, food and other items given the fact that the number is rising with more landslides expected to hit the region.

Leader of government business in parlaiment Prof Apollo Nsibambi said he is also not happy about reports that some agencies are threatening to pull out of the region stressing that Government is ready to feel the gap

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