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New Deal Revives Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway

Kenya’s dream of expanding its Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to the Ugandan border could be coming to fruition. A funding deal for the third phase of the railway project was announced following a trip to China by the country’s Finance Minister John Mbadi.

Kenya’s High Court Rules Contract for Chinese-Financed Railway Can Remain Secret

Kenya's highest court ruled the government does not have to reveal the contract for the controversial Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Friday's ruling overturned a 2020 Appeals Court ruling that claimed the government had indeed flouted procurement disclosure laws when it refused to publish ...

Solar Power to the People

By Sophie Mbugua, Wesley Langat The second instalment of this two-part series visits the Garissa solar power plant in eastern Kenya to explore the role of renewables in the energy transition. Heading north from the ...

New Kenyan Government Releases Controversial Chinese Loan Agreements For Standard Gauge Railway

Kenya's new Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen, rocked the political establishment in Nairobi over the weekend when he released the first details about the controversial multi-billion dollar loan from China to build the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).

Ruto Decisions Raise Questions About SGR’s Financial Future

Repaying Kenya’s $3.7 billion loan to China for the Standard Gauge Railway is key to Kenya’s broader financial future. However, two decisions by the country’s new President, William Ruto, will make that much harder, raising the danger that the burden could fall on taxpayers.

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2026: Africa-China Relations in a World Shaped by North-South Geopolitics

When talking about Africa–China relations, one is always moving along a sliding scale. There are myriad interactions with Chinese entities that concern only individual African countries, segueing into trends affecting the whole continent and sliding further into global dynamics shaping the developing world, of which Africa is the heart.

The Africa-China relationship is its own thing, but Africa’s fate can’t easily be separated from factors affecting the wider Global South, ...

China, Kenya Cut the Ribbon on Hugely Important Infrastructure Financing Experiment

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, together with Ambassador Zhou Pingjian, officially commissioned the $650 million Nairobi Expressway on Sunday. The project is gearing up to be the most important infrastructure financing test underway in Africa today. The 27-kilometer expressway was built and ...

Chinese-Built Nairobi Expressway to Open to Cars Next Week, But First It Was Runners’ Turn to Use the New Road

Thousands of Kenyans filled the new Chinese-financed and built Nairobi Expressway on Sunday when they ran/walked along the new road as part of the Nairobi City Marathon. President Uhuru Kenyatta was on hand to start the race and told everyone that ...

Wu Ashun Becomes First Chinese to Win Kenya Open Golf Tournament

Chinese professional golfer Wu Ashun took home the top prize at Sunday's Magical Kenya Open in Nairobi on Sunday, becoming the first Chinese, and the first person of Asian descent, to win the tournament. But it wasn't an easy win. He ...

World Bank Overtakes China as Kenya’s Creditor of Choice

There's been a major shift in Kenya's borrowing patterns over the past three years marked by a sharp increase in loans from the World Bank while lending from China has slowed considerably, according to new Treasury data. ...

Kenya’s Parliament Launches Inquiry Into Chinese Contracts

The months-long dispute over the transparency of Chinese infrastructure contracts in Kenya intensified on Monday when the parliament launched an official inquiry to identify "directors and/or representatives" involved in those deals. Parliamentary opponents of President Uhuru Kenyatta, led by National Assembly ...

Kenyatta to China’s Critics: “We Don’t Need Lectures”

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta hit back at critics of China's presence in Africa, presenting Beijing as a welcome alternative to Africa's legacy partners in the U.S. and Europe that too often, he said, lectured African countries and dictated the terms of engagement. 

Taking Stock of Wang Yi’s African Tour

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to East Africa and the Indian Ocean region is only halfway through, but it has already produced several interesting data points: In the first place, Wang made an oblique reference to China’s willingness to develop ...
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