Border dispute with Tanzania resolved

The Ugandan and Tanzanian authorities have reportedly resolved a long-standing border dispute between the two countries. The semi-official ‘New Vision’ newspaper quoted Mbarara (in southwest Uganda) resident district commissioner, Ngoma Ngime, as saying that the disputed stretch of land at Kamwema had reverted to Uganda. “Surveyors from Tanzania were unclear on who owned the estimated four kilometres of land between Kikagati in Mbarara and Karagwe, Tanzania,” the paper quoted Ngime as saying. “The Tanzanians thought their border extended up to Kikagati and would confiscate cattle from our herdsmen,” he said, adding that only a small tract of the post-independence boundary had reverted to Tanzania.