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Uganda, South Sudan in talks to secure key trade route Saturday April 10 2021 Uganda police officers man the Elegu Border point in northern Uganda. The Elegu-Nimule-Juba route is a major transport corridor for Uganda and South Sudan. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Summary The death of the eight drivers sparked protests at Elegu, a major crossing point from Uganda to South Sudan, paralysing flow of exports and travel of passengers to Juba. Drivers parked their trucks at Elegu on March 27 and by Friday, had not called off the protest. Advertisement Kampala has called for enhanced security on the Nimule-Ju...

SSPDF forces on April 26, 2019. [Photo: Nation Media Group] The government of South Sudan has deployed military forces along the Juba-Nimule and the Juba-Yei highways to provide security after a recent spate of ambushes and killings. More than 10 people including foreigners were killed and three trucks were set ablaze last week. Following the insecurity, Ugandan and Kenyan truck drivers and traders went on strike at the Elegu border town in Uganda and demanded security assurances for them to resume travel into South Sudan. The government says the deployment was completed on Tuesday by South S...

Uganda, South Sudan in talks to beef up security on major trade route Friday April 09 2021 Uganda police officers man the Elegu Border point in northern Uganda. The Elegu-Nimule-Juba route is a major transport corridor for Uganda and South Sudan. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Summary In a statement earlier, Juba blamed the attacks on rebel groups opposed to the implementation of the South Sudan peace agreement. Advertisement Kampala has called for enhanced security on the Nimule-Juba road in South Sudan where attacks in the last week of March resulted in the killing of eight Ugandan drivers. “We are...

Ugandan truckers strike, demand security to enter South Sudan Ugandan truck drivers destined for South Sudan have parked their trucks at the Elegu border town in protest of the recent highway killings, as they demanded security guarantees from the South Sudanese government. This followed shortly after South Sudanese authorities handed over the bodies of four Ugandan drivers who were killed in Lainya County along the Yei-Juba road last week. In another incident, two people were killed and trucks burned along the Juba-Nimule road late last week.  Zansa Moses, the chairperson of the Ugandan com...

Drivers arrested for knocking 2 people dead in Nimule The traffic police in Nimule town of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State have arrested two drivers for knocking dead a boda-boda rider and his passenger, a soldier from the Wounded Heroes Unit on Sunday. Captain Juma George, the director for traffic in Nimule said the victims 49-year-old Chol Anei of the South Sudan People's Defence Forces Wounded Heroes Unit and the boda-boda rider 27-year-old Amoko Godfrey Kenyi, were riding from Check Point towards Nimule Town when they met their untimely deaths.  “It was a vehicle that knocked d...