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Image caption: The highway is an important travel and trade route for the country
In the early hours of Thursday, traffic was brought to a standstill by knee-deep running water across the road. Swathes of land in Lwera swamp, a major part of the Lake Victoria catchment, have been reclaimed for farming, and a lot of sandmining carried out in the area in recent years.
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