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Uganda invites bids for Sh100 billion expressway

Uganda has invited bids from private investors to develop and operate a new 95km highway between Kampala and Jinja in the country’s east to ease congestion on the ageing existing road.

The estimated Sh100 billion ($1 billion) project is part of the Northern Corridor, a crucial East African transport artery that connects Kenya’s coast to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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