Traders rush back to Gatuna as Rwanda prepares to reopen border

Rwanda-Uganda border.

The Gatuna/Katuna border post on January 29, 2022. Preparations are ongoing for the January 31, 2022 reopening of the Rwanda-Uganda border. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA | NMG

Rwandans will be allowed to cross the Gatuna/Katuna border with Uganda starting Monday, for the first time in three years, after the two countries moved to end an impasse at the centre of its February 2019 closure.

Preparations