The President also recalled the close cooperation between Uganda and Tanzania, citing trade, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, the Murongo-Kyikagate mini-hydro project, roads in Tanzania, the Masaka-Bukoba transmission line and the Standard Gauge Railway, which has reached Isaka and is expected to extend towards Uganda and beyond.
According to Mukula, Uganda believes in the free and orderly movement of people, goods, services, and capital within the framework of regional laws and protocols, stating that it will continue to stand for the dignity of African brothers and sisters because Africa belongs to Africans.
On August 10, 2024, over 22 lives were lost, families displaced, and property distroyed as a result of the Kiteezi landfill disaster from the garbage collection site that covered several homes, which the public attributed to the incompetence and laxity by the KCCA management.
KCCA is dumping garbage in Katikolo in Mukono District and is yet to find an alternative dumping site for city garbage that will permanently replace the Kiteezi site, whose usage was suspended after it collapsed last month.