After nearly two months of closure, visitors is modestly resumed between town of Beni and Kasindi, on the Ugandan border. Merchants and truck drivers had determined to not take this part anymore after the a number of circumstances of armed assaults attributed to ADF fighters. The military broadcasts that they’ve taken new measures to make this street, which is essential for the area’s economic system, safer. Taxis and different street customers are cautious on web site.
With our particular correspondent in Beni, Affected person Ligodi
Mupanda cell, Ruwenzori municipality, that is the place automobiles coming from Kasindi, the border with Uganda, park.
The automotive park is struggling to regain its former environment. The drivers have a dangerous reminiscence of Nationwide Highway N ° 4. “It has been two months since we misplaced a driver to the village of Mighende. Different tragedies adopted. Autos had been attacked, others had been set on hearth. However lengthy earlier than, this street had at all times been harmful ”.
Hungry, some dare the identical method. “While you see a bike taxi take the danger, it is as a result of of starvation. When you could have nothing to go away dwelling, you are attempting the whole lot for the whole lot. It is suicide. It is giving up. In case you come again alive you then glorify God ”.
On the aspect of the military, we attempt to relax. Main Basic Peter Cirimwami is the commander of Operation Sokala 1. “We’re clearing the best way. We’ve positioned mounted positions. We place inserts with a truck that’s pre-positioned for fast intervention.
On this part, about ten folks, together with 4 drivers, have been killed in armed assaults because the starting of the 12 months.
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