Karuma

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Karuma referred

  • Karuma (Uganda) , a city in northwestern Uganda on the south bank of the Nile and at the northeast entrance of Murchison Falls National Park with about 8,000 inhabitants and an important military base of the Ugandan army.
  • the Karuma Bridge Victoria Nile Bridge , in the north of the city over the Nile, above it leads the only paved road connection of the entire north-west of Uganda (a quarter of the national area) and the neighboring regions of Eastern Congo and South Sudan with the rest of the country.
  • a military area Karuma Falls Restricted Zone , in which the bridge over the falls lies, which is guarded by considerable military forces due to its high strategic importance (the only Nile crossing downstream from Jinja that can be used by armored vehicles ) and the continuing terrorist threat in the region becomes.