East Africa: What Others Say - 'Eating' Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway

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As the stories on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) recently launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta continued to bubble - the glory it will bring, the cost, which pocketed what and didn't - I have been intrigued by a less glamorous part of the tale.

These are the fellows who, in many ways, are all but "eating the SGR": the vandals who are stealing metal bits presumably to sell them as scrap.

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