No, this is not the border bridge that connects Uganda and Kenya.

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Image showing the Uganda-Kenya border bridge.

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We reverse checked the image and discovered the photo was shared in an article by Channels TV, a Nigerian independent 24-hour news and media television channel based in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 28, 2021, when the Nigerian Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, went to inspect the border bridge connecting Nigeria and Cameroon project, at the Ajassor border community in Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State.

We also learned from a tweet on the official Twitter account of the Government of Nigeria that the two-lane Border Bridge was officially commissioned on November 3, 2022, by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Cameroonian President Paul Biya.

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No, this is not the border bridge that connects Uganda and Kenya.

The image is of the border bridge connecting Nigeria and Cameroon and was completed in July 2021, including a joint border post for seamless trade and migration between the two countries.

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