Fuel prices may not be about to come down even as fuel tanker drivers called off their strike after nearly three weeks. The drivers were protesting the high costs of mandatory COVID-19 testing by Uganda at the Malaba and Busia borders. The strike led to a shortage and a rise in the prices of petrol and diesel

build-up of petroleum trucks at Uganda’s border with Kenya has caused a spike in gasoline prices by almost 50% in parts of the capital, Kampala, in the past two weeks.