It's the gateway Thio eastern Central Africa.

But at Bruce Ear, on Kenya's border with Uganda, a queue of Lorries snakes back as far as the eye can see.

The road here has become a lorry park, where drivers wait for days to cross a sign of how increased health checks, including testing, are putting the brakes on trade.

And that's even as a pan African free trade zone is due to be launched on January.

The first that date was put back by six months, a middle locked down restrictions.

But at UC and with 2021 approaching, Kenyan driver Joseph Kimani says a crossing that used to involve a five hour wait can now take five days now and that you moves up night a bit.

But during the day it stops completely stops.

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As you can see, there's no there.

There is no sanitary equipment, he and other drivers said ACC.

You can stretch back more than 35 miles to cross the border.

They need to show a negative test taken in the previous 14 days.

Failing that, they must submit to testing at the border and wait two days for the results.

That's created big delays on a transport corridor that extends from Kenya's Port Mombasa into landlocked nations such as Rwanda, south Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Those four, along with 50 other countries, have signed up for the African Continental Free Trade Area, which aims to bring 1.3 billion people together in a $3.4 trillion economic block.

Its secretary general said last week that innovative arrangements will be required as not all the customs infrastructure will be ready in time.

Kenya's government says delays at Bussi A will be reduced once an approach road is turned into a dual carriageway, a project due for completion in 2022.

But until then, life on the road for the drivers in Brasilia has become exactly that.