Kenya orders 24 hour border, ports service

• Rwanda truckers could face  axle-load dilemma Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki yesterday ordered that all Kenyan main border posts and the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa operate 24 hours a day in an effort to speed up the movement of cargo along the Northern Corridor. A statement from the State House Nairobi announced that in a bid to speed up the process at weigh bridges, Kibaki had also ordered that sealed trucks should now only be weighed at the source, thereby removing the dozen or so weigh bridges in the country. Much of Rwanda’s imports come through Mombasa, Kenya’s main port and are transported using the corridor.