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#1 Sloan

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Posted 24 September 2015 - 09:14 AM

 

 

KENYA Railways has signed an agreement with China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) to extend the 609km standard-gauge line under construction between Mombasa and Nairobi by 120km north to Naivasha.

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Posted 08 June 2017 - 01:59 PM

The New York Times, 6/6/17:
 

Kenyans Fear Chinese-Backed Railway Is Another ‘Lunatic Express’

 

 

NAIROBI, Kenya — With sloping, charcoal-gray walls that resemble the elegant curves of a luxury car, Nairobi’s sleek new railway station, built by China, looks more like an airport terminal reserved for wealthy Kenyans and their private jets.

 

Given the price tag, it might just as well be.

 

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government spent $4 billion on a 300-mile railway connecting the capital to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, the most expensive infrastructure project since Kenya’s independence 54 years ago and one-fifth of its national budget.

 

Eager to portray it as a major achievement ahead of national elections in August, Mr. Kenyatta opened the so-called Standard Gauge Railway last Wednesday. But the fanfare was overshadowed by a concern that has been snowballing for months, filling many Kenyans with mild terror: How can the country repay its monstrous debt to China?

 

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Posted 29 June 2020 - 06:58 AM

IRJ  6/26/20
 

Kenyan Court of Appeal finds SGR construction contract illegal

 

 

THE Kenyan Court of Appeal has found that the Shillings 500bn ($US 4.7bn) construction contract for the country’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was made illegally.

 

The court found that the contract, agreed between public operator Kenya Railways (KR) and the China Bridges and Railway Corporation (CBRC) without a public tender, failed to sufficiently follow the country’s competition and procurement laws.

 

The verdict overturns a decision to dismiss the case made by then-High Court judge, Justice Isaac Lenaola (now a member of Kenya’s Supreme Court) in November 2014.

 

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