Kenya’s railway expansion plan has received a further boost in the form of a US$1.5-billion loan from China to extend its railway from the capital to the Rift Valley town of Naivasha.
A Reuters news agency report cited Kenyan presidency spokesman, Manoah Esipisu, as saying that the faster railway being built from the port of Mombasa was expected to reach Nairobi next year and open up to commercial services in mid-2017.
The project forms part of a larger scheme that aims to extend to Uganda and other land-locked countries.
