Uganda, Feb. 28 -- Residents of Alito sub-county, Kole District in Northern Uganda, have asked the World Bank to provide financial support to improve road connections in the area through reconstruction, maintaining and improving rural bridges.

They hope the World Bank's intervention would ease the movement of goods and people, and improve access to social services and job opportunities in the district.

For over eight years now, residents of the Alito sub-county have been struggling to access social services following the collapse of eight of the rural bridges.

The affected bridges include; Agwar, Agangoluto, Barakere, Olipa, Owinyodap, Orwa, Olukturu, and Adonyo-Ajili, whose reconstruction requires about Shs9 billion, according to the ...