NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Kenya and Uganda plan to build a new railway from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to cope with increased trade between the east African countries and their landlocked ...

What you need to know: In the Ugandan context, the myth that access to the sea determines prosperity refuses to die. For ...

Uganda has ended its railway deal with the Chinese firm; China Harbour and Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC), to build a standard gauge railway that links the country to its East African neighbour Kenya.

(Bloomberg) -- Kenya said it is in talks with the UAE to expand a railway line to Uganda and South Sudan. “We are exploring a partnership agreement with the United Arab Emirates to extend the Standard ...

NAIROBI, March 1 (Reuters) - Kenya and Uganda expect cargo trains running on a standard gauge railway due to be operational in three years will treble speeds and carry 10 times more freight than ...

Kenya and Uganda have blocked a $2 billion claim lodged by Rift Valley Railways (RVR) in the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) over a collapsed 25-year concession to run the ...

KAMPALA - Uganda said it expects to finalize a $2.2 billion loan deal with China’s Exim bank by the end of the year. to pay for part of a railway line to connect Kenya’s Mombasa seaport with Kampala.

President Museveni last week denied claims that he pushed government officials to circumvent the proper "procurement process" for the standard gauge railway (SGR) project. Sources in Parliament said ...

Kampala — When the struggling Rift Valley Railways this week named businessman Charles Mbire to its board of directors, the general feeling among Ugandans was that the country could not have got a ...