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The man 'getting mad' about Uganda's road deaths

Motorbike taxis 鈥� boda bodas 鈥� weave precariously through the traffic with two or three passengers on their back - ignoring red lights. Government vehicles routinely flout the rules of the road.

Travelling in Kampala can be eyewatering鈥� so it鈥檚 perhaps not a surprise that more people die on Uganda鈥檚 roads than anywhere else in East Africa.

Kampala鈥檚 Mulago National Referral Hospital even has a special ward just for the drivers of boda bodas who account for the highest number of deaths.

Joe Walker 鈥� a road safety campaigner who鈥檚 walked 340km across the country to raise awareness about the subject - spoke to Africa Daily.

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