{"id":238696,"date":"2026-07-14T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-malaba-traffic-snarl-deepens-as-ura-defends-reinstated-cargo-seals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:30:54","slug":"uganda-malaba-traffic-snarl-deepens-as-ura-defends-reinstated-cargo-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-malaba-traffic-snarl-deepens-as-ura-defends-reinstated-cargo-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Malaba Traffic Snarl Deepens As Ura Defends Reinstated Cargo Seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">A traffic snarl stretching nearly 35 kilometres into Kenya has crippled operations at the Malaba border crossing, with truck drivers, transporters and clearing agents blaming the Uganda Revenue Authority&#8217;s (URA) reinstatement of metallic electronic cargo seals for the prolonged delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The congestion, which has persisted for the past three days, has transformed one of East Africa&#8217;s busiest border posts into a major bottleneck, leaving the Ugandan side unusually quiet as only a limited number of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607140527.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traffic snarl stretching nearly 35 kilometres into Kenya has crippled operations at the Malaba border crossing, with truck drivers, transporters and clearing agents blaming the Uganda Revenue Authority&#8217;s (URA) reinstatement of metallic electronic cargo seals for the prolonged delays. The congestion, which has persisted for the past three days, has transformed one of East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15349,9626,7820,430,33161,257,16081,11124,16255,254,9527,4707,39107],"class_list":["post-238696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cargo","tag-deepens","tag-defends","tag-kenya-news","tag-malaba","tag-news","tag-reinstated","tag-seals","tag-snarl","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic","tag-uganda","tag-ura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}