Uganda has invited international and regional contractors to bid for the $1-billion, 95-kilometer toll expressway project that links the country's capital, Kampala, to Jinja, a town known as the source of the Nile River.
The expressway, which is expected to be financed by the European Union, French Development Agency and the African Development Bank, is one of the five expressways being constructed in the landlocked nation under the country's second phase of the National Development Plan under a design-build-finance-operate-transfer model with a completion deadline of 2025.