Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni officially launched a 525-metre long bridge, dubbed The Source of the Nile Bridge, Wednesday in the southern town of Jinja.
The $112 million cable-stayed bridge was funded by a loan from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency.
Mr Masahisa Sato, the State Foreign Affairs Minister of Japan, was also present at the ceremony.
Jinja thoroughfare that the bridge connects is a busy import-export route for Uganda through Kenya and, as such, provides the economic lifeline for the landlocked country.
