Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Extension of Chinese-built Railway from Mombasa to Nairobi Up in Air

Tanzania's The Citizen published on 23 June 2019 an article titled "China Keeps Uganda, Kenya Guessing on SGR Loan" by Frederic Musisi.

Chinese financing has resulted in completion of the standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Nairobi in Kenya. The project was to extend to Kampala, Uganda, and then to Kigali in Rwanda and Juba in South Sudan. Subsequent concerns about the economic viability of the project and the ability of countries to pay off the loan to China have put the expansion of the railway in doubt.