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Kenya: Kenya Struggles to Manage Debt for Railway to 'Nowhere'
DW, 18 October 2019
As Kenya's government trumpets the opening of its new, Chinese-built train line to the Rift Valley, critics say the railway serves little purpose and is plunging Kenya into massive… Read more »
Kenya Opens Second Phase of Massive Chinese-Funded Rail Project
The latest stretch of track that will eventually link the port of Mombasa to Uganda cost U.S.$1.5 billion and runs from Nairobi to the Rift Valley town of Naivasha. Critics argue that the cost of the railway is plunging Kenya into debt.
The newly built Standard Gauge Railway line that passes through Maai Mahiu to the Suswa station.
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Eighteen months down the line, with a string of lost business and livelihoods, the standard gauge railway cargo haulage continues to traverse the over 400-kilometre Nairobi-Mombasa ... Read more »
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The corporation is also holding talks to finance a system that will ensure the railway, its passengers, goods and equipment travel securely through populated regions in its ... Read more »
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The corporation claims that the Spanish trains are much cheaper and that France has bought similar trains. Kenya Railways says the purpose of the purchase is to see the number of ... Read more »
