Uncertainty at Gatuna as businesses count losses, trucks find new routes

Stranded travellers at the Gatuna/Katuna border on March 1, 2019. Business at the one-stop border post has dropped. PHOTO | IVAN R. MUGISHA | NMG

In the week since the decision by Rwanda to close the Gatuna border and stop its nationals from crossing into Uganda, the usually busy post has become a ghost town with little traffic.

On Thursday, Customs officials held a crisis meeting to discuss the loss of revenue after a tip off that Kigali would not be reopening the border post soon.