Nairobi — FOR AS FAR BACK AS REHEMA Naiumansi can remember, Naluwerere town in eastern Uganda has been a popular stopover for long distance truck drivers plying the Kampala-Mombasa Highway section of the Northern Corridor.
In the early 1980s, this nondescript town an hour's drive from the Kenya-Uganda border crossing at Malaba, drew truckers like moths to a night fire. By the mid 1980s, a strange illness had indiscriminately killed off the town's men and women. There was panic as people moved out while the truckers sped past the ghost town, bringing its economy to its knees.
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