The Chinese-built 84-km Kenol-Sagana-Marua road which passes through agriculture-rich central Kenya will be completed in December, a senior government official has said. Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure James Macharia said that upgrading of the two-lane dual carriageway in two phases by two Chinese firms, Jiangxi Transportation Engineering Group and…
Deep in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, members of the National Youth Service tirelessly swing machetes to clear dense shrubs obscuring railway tracks more than a century old.
It is a distinctly low-tech phase for China’s Belt and Road drive in Africa to create the trade highways of the future.
There is not enough money left to complete the new 1,000km super-fast rail link from the port of Mombasa to Uganda. It ends abruptly in the countryside, 468km short of the border, and now Kenya is resorting to finishing the route by revamping the 19th-century colonial British-built tracks that once passed that way.
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Deep in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, members of the National Youth Service tirelessly swing machetes to clear dense shrubs obscuring railway tracks more than a century old.
It is a distinctly low-tech phase for China’s Belt and Road drive in Africa to create the trade highways of the future.
There is not enough money left to complete the new 1,000km super-fast rail link from the port of Mombasa to Uganda. It ends abruptly in the countryside, 468km short of the border, and now Kenya is resorting to finishing the route by revamping the 19th-century colonial British-built tracks that once passed that way.
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Daily Monitor
Saturday May 15 2021
The inland container depot in Naivasha, Kenya, where an interchange linking the standard gauge and metre gauge railway lines is being developed to create a seamless passage of goods from the port of Mombasa to the Great Lakes region through Uganda. PHOTO/FILE/NMG
Summary
In May last year, President Museveni argued that increasingly cargo should be shifted from road to the railway, because of its low cost and the high maintenance costs of road networks due to the heavy toll by trucks.
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With an eye on the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan markets, there is renewed vibrancy on the Northern Corridor, as Uganda and Kenya join forces to push the rehabilitation and seamless connection of the old metre gauge railway line, over which the two countries’ officials met this week to thrash out operational details.