South end: Kyenjojo Length 103 km | North end: Kabwoya Major cities Kagadi | |
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History: Designation in 2016
Expected completion in 2019 | ||
The Kyenjojo–Kabwoya Road, in the Western Region of Uganda, connects the town of Kyenjojo in Kyenjojo District with Kabwoya in Hoima District. The road is part of the 238 kilometres (148 mi) Kyenjojo–Hoima–Masindi–Kigumba road corridor.
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Location
The road starts at Kyenjojo, 51 kilometres (32 mi) east of Fort Portal on the Mubende–Kyegegwa–Kyenjojo–Fort Portal Road, and continues north through Kagadi in Kibaale District, to end in Kabwoya in Hoima District, a distance of approximately 103 kilometres (64 mi). The road connects traffic from Rwanda, Burundi, and southwestern Uganda that is destined for the oil-rich Albertine graben, directly with the Ugandan oil capital of Hoima and with a link to South Sudan via the Kigumba–Masindi–Hoima–Kabwoya Road. The coordinates of the road near Kagadi are 0°56'19.0"N, 30°48'32.0"E (Latitude:0.9386; Longitude:30.8089).
Upgrading to bitumen
The government of Uganda has earmarked this road for upgrading through the conversion of the existing gravel road to bitumen surface and the building of bridges, shoulders, and drainage channels. Application has been made for a loan from the World Bank to fund the upgrade. In August 2015, the World Bank committed to lend US$145 million (about UGX:526 billion) to the Uganda government to pave this road and improve the access of the local population to education and other social economic services. A Chimese company has been awarded the contract, at a budgetted cost of Shs214 billion and with commissioning expected in 2019.