Friends of the Rail Forum

The government of Kenya has finally accepted to extend the standard gauge railway (SGR) from Naivasha to Malaba border. Uganda has welcomed the news, saying the development will connect Mombasa and Kampala cities... Uganda has been urging its neighbour to extend the railway to the border as per the connectivity agreements in 2014. “They {Kenya} have gone to our original plan. It had earlier been agreed that the SGR be extended to our border and then we would also construct it to our neighbours, but the plans was delayed due to internal issues of our neighbour. Now it seems they have sorted them out,” Ms Kataike said. The project was mooted in 2014 by the regional leaders from Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Rwanda. But when the railway line reached Naivasha, the Kenyan authorities pulled the plug. The Chinese funders also declined to fund the SGR project on the Ugandan side...

Kenya has set sights on a Sh2.1 trillion plan to extend the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Kisumu, Malaba and Isiolo by the end of June 2027... The plan, lifted from the Jubilee Government's grand scheme on SGR (so far Kenya’s most expensive project), is part of the Sh3.42 trillion Lamu Port South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset). Lapsset is aimed at opening up northern Kenya and revamping the northern corridor by spurring movement within Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia. It is an ambitious scheme that will not only see the modern railway reach the border town of Malaba via Kisumu, as it was initially envisioned, but also Isiolo, Moyale and the island of Lamu. The line will move from Mariakani in Mombasa County to Lamu to Isiolo. From Isiolo, the SGR will be connected to the northeastern town of Moyale which borders Ethiopia...

Kenya and Uganda will seek an alternative financier for Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project to connect Naivasha and Kampala via Malaba, officials said this week...