# Kyaka Bridge

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| bridge_name      = Kyaka Bridge
| native_name      = {{small|{{native phrase|sw|Daraja la Kyaka}}}}
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| other_name       = Kagera River Bridge
| carries          = B8 road (2 lanes)
| crosses          = [Kagera River](/source/Kagera_River)
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| owner            = [Government of Tanzania](/source/Government_of_Tanzania)
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| fabricator       = [Painter Brothers](/source/Painter_Brothers)
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| preceded         = [Rusomo Bridge](/source/Rusomo_Bridge)
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'''Kyaka Bridge''', sometimes referred to as the Kagera Bridge, is a bridge in [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania) that crosses the [Kagera River](/source/Kagera_River).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.painterbrothers.com/itemdetails.php?id=24 |title= The Kyaka River Bridge in Tanzania  |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=December 2010 |publisher= [Painter Brothers](/source/Painter_Brothers) |accessdate=15 March 2013}}</ref> The bridge was blown up by [Uganda](/source/Uganda)n experts from [Kilembe Mines](/source/Kilembe_Mines) in 1978 during the [Uganda–Tanzania War](/source/Uganda%E2%80%93Tanzania_War).<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D4LcR4iOmcYC&dq=Kyaka+Bridge&pg=PA319 |title= Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era  |last1= Mwakikagile |first1= Godfrey |date= 2010 |work= |publisher= New Africa Press |isbn= 9780980253412 |accessdate=16 March 2013}}</ref> 

The present (truss) bridge is a [Callender-Hamilton bridge](/source/Callender-Hamilton_bridge)  supplied by the British  structural steelwork fabricators [Painter Brothers](/source/Painter_Brothers).

==References==
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{{Bridges in Tanzania}}

Category:Bridges over the Kagera River
Category:Bridges in Tanzania

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