World Food Program Emergency Report No. 07 for Africa, distributed by the Africa News Service: "1.1 Delivery of food to WFP beneficiaries throughout the Great Lakes region remains constrained because of continued problems of logistics capacity along the southern corridor from Dar es Salaam. Food movement via Mpulungu in Zambia is stalled, due to a downed bridge north of Kasama and congestion in Mpulungu port, resulting from recent heavy rains and increased commercial traffic.Repair works on the bridge are expected to be completed within one week but meanwhile some many trucks are stranded at the harbour. 1.2 The road/rail link from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma is performing at the target rate of 6,000 tons per month, with this capacity shared between the Tanzanian drought, the Tanzanian refugee and the Uvira returnee programmes, as well as a part of the Burundi programme. WFP also continues the despatch of food to the Tanzanian drought project from Mombasa via Kisumu to Mwanza.
1.3 As commercial operators are also beginning to use the Kisumu port link to northern Tanzania, congestion problems are beginning to appear on the Mombasa-Kisumu rail line, meaning that the majority of WFP's cargo on the northern corridor is moving on the overland rail route to Uganda,with a limited use of the Kisumu-Port Bell rail ferry link. 1.4 Increased commercial food imports into Kenya, due to food production disruptions over the last few months, are now also affecting the Mombasa-Kampala rail line. WFP is holding discussions with both Kenya railways and the Uganda Railways Corporation, to ensure that planned throughput levels will be maintained, as the northern corridor is presently supplying all of Uganda's and Rwanda's relief food needs, as well as two-thirds of Burundi's relief food requirements."