New road for Uganda will ease freight congestion

Uganda’s head of state, Yoweri Museveni, has officially commissioned the construction of the 37-km Ntungamo-Mirama Hills road.



The construction of the 37-km road is co-funded by the Government of Uganda through the Uganda National Roads Agency (NRA) and through TradeMark East Africa (TMEA). The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is contributing $22 million. Construction is expected to take 18 months with the road ready for use in April 2016, according to a statement by TMEA.



The Mirama Hills road route offers a shorter and less difficult route to Rwanda than passing through the Katuna/Gatuna border post. This unpaved section of 37 Km of Northern Corridor road network was a major constraint to the better operationalisation of a one stop border post at Kagitumba and Mirama Hills and is expected to decrease the time for goods to be transported between Kampala and Kigali and increase the volume of traffic using this route.