Building the Pirre Road'. Forest Ranger Langoya (right) helps labourers to remove boulders with pickaxes at the construction site of the Pirre Road. A related caption comments that the Forest Department built such roads to provide access "to remote areas in the north of Karamoja for administration and to patrol (their) hill forests". Dodoth, Karamoja, North Uganda, September 1959., North (Uganda), Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa.
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Building the Pirre Road'. Forest Ranger Langoya (right) helps labourers to remove boulders with pickaxes at the construction site of the Pirre Road. A related caption comments that the Forest Department built such roads to provide access "to remote areas in the north of Karamoja for administration and to patrol (their) hill forests". Dodoth, Karamoja, North Uganda, September 1959., North (Uganda), Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa.

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