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Washed-out Mombasa road blocks supplies to neigbouring land-locked nations
A WASHED-OUT road 50 kilometres from Mombasa is blocking vital goods from reaching Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Reuters reports.
Truck queues are nearly 50 kilometres long, with vehicles stranded far from towns and villages where they can purchase food and water.
The washed-out road was being used as a diversion while the main highway leading to the capital, Nairobi, is being repaired.
"I have not eaten since yesterday morning, not showered and not even changed clothes," Nathaniel Chweya, a truck driver hauling 10 cars to the Ugandan capital of Kampala, told Reuters.
Said Kenya Transporters Association CEO Willingtone Kiberenge: "We have more than 1,500 trucks stuck in the traffic since yesterday. Nothing much has changed and the problem is escalating".
A Mombasa port official said the cargo operations were still normal. "But if the problem on the highway persists into the weekend, it will affect truck turn-around time and therefore we shall begin to feel the effect through cargo backlog," he said.
Truck queues are nearly 50 kilometres long, with vehicles stranded far from towns and villages where they can purchase food and water.
The washed-out road was being used as a diversion while the main highway leading to the capital, Nairobi, is being repaired.
"I have not eaten since yesterday morning, not showered and not even changed clothes," Nathaniel Chweya, a truck driver hauling 10 cars to the Ugandan capital of Kampala, told Reuters.
Said Kenya Transporters Association CEO Willingtone Kiberenge: "We have more than 1,500 trucks stuck in the traffic since yesterday. Nothing much has changed and the problem is escalating".
A Mombasa port official said the cargo operations were still normal. "But if the problem on the highway persists into the weekend, it will affect truck turn-around time and therefore we shall begin to feel the effect through cargo backlog," he said.
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