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  • China $4.6b railway deal to test Kenya’s relations with Uganda

    05/23/2011 3:13:11 PM PDT · by AfricanChristian · 6 replies
    Chinese construction company, China Roads and Bridge Corporation, has successfully lobbied Kenya to pull out of a bilateral agreement signed with Uganda in October 2008. The agreement committed the two neighbours to co-operate on the building of a modern railway link between the port of Mombasa and Kampala. If the proposal by China Roads is accepted, it will not only precipitate diplomatic tensions, but force Uganda into seeking partnership with Tanzania and Rwanda to develop an alternative standard gauge railway link through the Central corridor in Tanzania. On October 28, 2008, presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Mwai Kibaki of...