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The Kayoola Bus may be the continent's first solar-powered bus. (Kiira Motors) WRITTEN BY Omar Mohammed Ugandan engineers have built a solar-powered electric bus that they say is a first of its kind in East Africa and think it will revolutionize the automotive market in the region. The Kayoola, as its called, is a 35-seater that can run for up to 80 kilometers on two power banks that can also be recharged by solar panels installed on the roof of the bus. Paul Musasizi, chief executive officer of Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC), the state-funded company behind the vehicle, says with the potential for solar power in Uganda, it only made sense that engineers started to leverage the energy source for cars. “The bus is purely electric and our idea is to test the strength of solar energy in enabling people to move,” he told a local newspaper. The company built the prototype with funds from the Ugandan government. But KMC is hoping to attract inves...

Magari akiwa yamesimama katika mataa  ya barabara   eneo la Mafiati jijini Mbeya, mataa ambayo yanatumia umeme wa solar kujiendesha jana. (Picha na Friday Simbaya)

Dr. Hamisi Shabani who is a Neurosurgeon from Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI) speaking to journalists during a screening and operation camp of children with Hydrocephalus and Spinal bifida problems held at the Mbeya Zonal Referral Hospital in Mbeya Region during the weekend. A resident of Mwaka Village Tunduma in Momba District, Mbeya region Veronica Tweve,40 sits on beside her child on bed at Mbeya Referral Hospital where she is admitted during a screening and operation camp of children with Hydrocephalus and Spinal bifida problems held at the Mbeya Zonal Referral Hospital in Mbeya Region during the weekend. Neurosurgeon from  Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI) Dr. Mugisha Clement (centre)speaks to a  resident of Mwaka Village Tunduma in Momba District, Mbeya Region, Veronica Tweve,40 who  sits on beside her child on hospital bed at Mbeya Referral Hospital where she is admitted during a scr...