Views from the NMT corridor along Luwum Street on Thursday. Courtesy Images

Over 250 vendors have so far been relocated to Uganda Government gazetted Markets around the City in a bid to create trade order and restore sanity in the Capital.

Deadline approaching for Kampala street vendors to vacate city

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