The Telegraph published on 3 September 2025 an article titled "All Aboard 'The Debt Express': China's Pincer Movement on Africa" by Ben Marlow.
Kenya's largest ever infrastructure project is the Standard Gauge Railway financed by a loan from China and built by a Chinese company. It begins in the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, passes through the capital of Nairobi, and ends in a corn field deep in Kenya's Rift Valley. The intention was to complete the line to Uganda's capital of Kampala. Excessive Kenyan debt has prevented extension of the project to the Kenya/Uganda border.