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Rwanda-Uganda border closure creates logistics nightmare

A Rwanda-Uganda border at Kagitumba. Simmering tension is affecting movement of people and goods between the two neighbours. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  Ivan R. Mugisha ,  DICTA ASIIMWE  &  Johnson Kanamugire

"Do you want to cross to Uganda and be mistreated? They will arrest and torture you. We will not allow you to take that risk!"

That is what an Immigration official at Gatuna — the busiest border crossing between Rwanda and Uganda — told The EastAfrican on Friday. And he was dead serious.

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