[1] The road starts at Kyenjojo, 51 kilometres (32 mi) east of Fort Portal on the Mubende–Kyegegwa–Kyenjojo–Fort Portal Road,[2] and continues north through Kagadi in Kagadi District, to end in Kabwoya in Hoima District, a distance of approximately 103 kilometres (64 mi).
[3] The road connects traffic from Rwanda, Burundi, and south-western Uganda that is destined for the Albertine graben, directly with the Ugandan oil capital of Hoima and with a link to South Sudan via the Kigumba–Masindi–Hoima–Kabwoya Road.
[5][6] In August 2015, the World Bank committed to lend US$145 million (about UGX:526 billion) to the Uganda government to pave this road and improve the access of the local population to education and other social economic services.
[7] A Chinese company has been awarded the contract, at a budgeted cost of UGX:214 billion and with commissioning expected in 2019.
[9][10] In September 2021, Allen Kagina, the executive director of Uganda National Road Authority, announced that the upgrade of this road to class II bitumen surface had been completed during the 2020/2021 financial year that ended on 30 June 2021.