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In Uganda’s chaotic capital, boda-boda motorcycle taxis are a source of life and death

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Noah Farley
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — For tens of thousands of men in Uganda’s capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living. For others, the vehicles known as boda-bodas are an essential but menacing means of transport in a city of chaos. They are ubiquitous in East African capitals, but their numbers have been surging most dramatically in Kampala, which has 3 million people, no mass transit system and rampant unemployment. Boda-bodas take children to school, people to offices, the sick to clinics and even the dead to their graves. Longtime President Yoweri Museveni embraces boda-boda men as mobilizers of political support.

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