China Could Fund Kenyan Rail Through Public-Private Partnership: Kenyan President

Kenyan President William Ruto at his annual year-end roundtable interview with journalists at the State House in Nairobi on December 17, 2023. Image via KBC.

Kenyan President William Ruto renewed his calls for China to fund the third stretch of the country’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Speaking at a roundtable event in Nairobi during the weekend, Ruto said the project is currently being discussed in Beijing and could move forward as a public-private partnership.

Ruto has long put public pressure on Chinese funders to pay for the third phase of the railway, which would extend it to the Ugandan border. This reportedly forms part of wider worries that existing Chinese infrastructure projects could turn into white elephants.

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