Kabale-Kisoro Road Closed Due to mudslides
In the past few weeks, torrential downpours have left a path of devastation in their wake, breaking riverbanks and triggering devastating landslides, particularly in the western Ugandan region of Kisoro.
Six people have died in the most recent landslides in Kisoro, according to the Uganda Red Cross Society, whose teams are performing relief work alongside the government and local communities. Five of these victims were from the same family. Roads and some food plants were destroyed.
Due to the collapse of the road brought on by the excessive rains, traffic along the Kabale-Kisoro Road in Hamurwa Town Council has been completely stopped. The highway has been prevented from being used by trucks and other large vehicles. To most people in southwestern Uganda, it is only in imaginations that something that terrible cutting off Kisoro from Kabale would happen. A resident of Kabale town a one Sam Manzi, said that the imagination became a reality yesterday morning when a mudslide hit Kabale-Kisoro road, disrupting traffic to and from the southwestern border district of Kisoro.
“We are stranded”, Manzi claimed, adding that the Kabale-Kisoro Road main road had been part of their pride ever since it was constructed.
The kabale-Kisoro road connects Uganda to the neighboring DR Congo via Bunagana border and Rwanda via the Chanika border. Hamurwa-kanungu road connects Uganda to DR Congo through Ishasha border.
Uganda National Roads Authority issued a public notice concerning the Kabale -Kisoro Road that was cut off by mudslides most especially the road users along the Kabale-Kisoro road, that following the landslides affecting Kigezi sub region, the road section at Hamurwa along Kabale -Kisoro road has been severely affected.
