The Members of the Parliament in Uganda have expressed dissent over the financing of the planned reconstruction of the Kampala -Jinja expressway development.
The government plans to fund the construction of the expressway under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. MPs argued that the PPP model will delay the construction of the road project furthering the traffic condition in the region.
In November 2018, the African Development Bank (ADB) has approved the sovereign loan of US$229.5 million to Uganda to finance phase one of the Kampala-Jinja Expressway project. The 85-km road will link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan with Kenya’s Mombasa maritime port.
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May 24, 2019
Uganda Roads Authority to issue RFP to pre-qualified bidders in June
The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) is set to issue RFP documents to four pre-qualified bidding teams in June 2019. The four pre-qualified bidding teams for the project are, led by China C...
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January 15, 2019
Uganda Roads Authority rejects late bid for Kampala-Jinja expressway project
The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) has rejected a late bid from China Railway 17th Bureau Group for the 77km Kampala-Jinja expressway project. The US$1.1 billion infrastructure project wi...
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January 10, 2019
Uganda to award Kampala-Jinja expressway project by year-end
The Government of Uganda is expecting to conclude the selection of the preferred bidder for the Kampala - Jinja expressway project by the end of 2019. A senior member of the Uganda National Roads Aut...
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December 19, 2018
Four bidders prequalified for US$1.5 billion road project in Uganda
The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) has announced that it has prequalified four bidding teams to proceed to the second phase of the tender for the Kampala - Jinja Expressway (KJE) road project.
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November 07, 2018
AfDB approves financing for US$1.55 billion expressway PPP in Uganda
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a sovereign loan of US$229.5 million to the Republic of Uganda to finance phase one of the Kampala-Jinja Expressway project. Total project cost is...
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