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Daily Monitor
Monday April 19 2021
Summary
The United Nations (UN) highlights road safety management, safer roads and mobility, vehicles, road users and post-crash response as the five pillars of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety.
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The United National annual road safety week is commemorated in May, every year. This year it will run from May 17 to 23.
More than 1.2 million people are killed and 50 million more injured every year on the world’s roads. At least 92 per cent of the deaths recorded are in low and middle income countries.
In Uganda, the police recorded 3,407 fatalities from road crashes in 2019 and nine deaths each day and that is just the ones that are reported or the ones lucky enough to have traffic police on site.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 10 2021
Summary
The strategy is in line with the country’s commitment to the second United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRIS).
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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) yesterday unveiled the road safety strategy that seeks to reduce accidents and traffic fatalities in Kampala by 50 per cent by 2030.
The strategy is in line with the country’s commitment to the second United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRIS).
While launching the strategy, the Kampala Initiative Coordinator for BIGRIS, Ms Jemima Nalumansi, said the road strategy aims to achieve safety for all road users.