[1] The town is located on the main Nairobi-Kampala highway, approximately 129 kilometres (80 mi), by road, west of Eldoret, the nearest large city.

[2] This is about 438 kilometres (272 mi) northwest of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya.

[5] The town sits on the main Bujumbura-Mombasa Road, also known as the Northern Corridor, which connects the capitals of four East African Community countries of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.

[7] Malaba and Busia, both border towns between Uganda and Kenya, are used by thousands of truck drivers every day.

Many of these drivers spend from a few hours to several days at the border while the trucks are loaded with new goods or while customs processes are cleared.