Kenya closes porous routes on Uganda border over smuggling
A man carrying cereals on a bicycle through the one-stop border point in Uganda’s Busia District after Kenya closed illegal porous border points. PHOTO | MONITOR
Mr Emmanuel Karani, 55, has two wives across the border in Kenya and another wife on the Ugandan side of the border. However, he is one of the many residents of Uganda’s Busia district who have been affected after Kenya closed all porous routes.
Over the weekend, Nairobi closed the Kenya-Uganda border in Busia District, which includes 57 kilometres of porous borders and over 200 illegal routes stretching from Lake Victoria in Majanji to River Malaba in Buteba Sub-County.
