[3] Kabalega was en route to Port Bell in Uganda while Kaawa was sailing in the opposite direction towards Mwanza in Tanzania.

[5] A distress message was radioed to a third Ugandan ferry, MV Pemba, which was en route to Mwanza ahead of Kaawa.

[3] URC's chairman Paul Etiang admitted that marine insurance for Kaawa, Kabalega and Pemba had expired in December 2004 and not been renewed.

A commission of enquiry attributed the collision to inadequately trained crew on the bridges of both ferries and a lack of communication equipment.

[7] In May 2008 Uganda's Daily Monitor reported that The Minister of Finance, Ezra Suruma, was expected to announce in that year's budget speech a government allocation of USh 14 billion to buy a new train ferry to replace Kabalega.