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Uganda will partner with Central African Republic (CAR) to build a network of roads connecting the northern border part of the East African country to a township in CAR’s southeastern corner as the two landlocked countries aim to boost trade ties, President Museveni announced on Wednesday.

“Together with CAR, we want to persuade the governments of Congo and South Sudan that we work on the roads from Arua (northern Uganda) to Isiro (Congo) and then to Obbo (CAR),” the Ugandan leader said.

“Then we need to persuade South Sudan for a road through Yei, Maridi and Yambio…up to CAR. Then, the East Africa Community (EAC) will be linked by road to CAR and beyond,” he elaborated.

Uganda and CAR are physically apart by over 1, 100 kms, geographically separated by Congo and South Sudan.

The 80-year-old Ugandan leader revealed that they had agreed to the ambitious road project through a long October 8 discussion with visiting CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who attended Uganda’s 62nd Independence anniversary a day later.

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