Kenya to use Beijing forum to secure SGR loan

Standard gauge Railway train. FILE PHOTO | NMG

What you need to know:

  • Another loan may yet be needed to build the stretch from Kisumu to Malaba once Kenya secures funding for Naivasha to Kisumu line.
  • If the standard gauge railway line ever reaches Malaba, Kenya will have spend nearly a trillion shillings on the Jubilee's flagship project.
  • Kenya's Ambassador to China Sarah Serem has downplayed fears that the Asian superpower is trapping developing countries with debt using the Belt and Road Initiative.