Uganda: Japan Wants to Fund Karuma Bridge

Tokyo — The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has hinted on possibility of bankrolling construction of a second suspended bridge on River Nile at Karuma once the proposals have been approved at the highest level.

JICA's country officer-in charge of Uganda, Mr Nishino Mitsuo, in an interview with Daily Monitor at the agency's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, described the plan as "attractive" and highly demand driven but said they are still "gathering a lot of information before we can make a decision."

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