China's cold feet derail Kenyan transport hopes
Saturday Insight
Gleaming concrete sleepers run across a new railway bridge in Kenya, the latest stretch of a Chinese-built line from the coast all the way to Uganda.
Only, it does not quite reach the border. Instead, the railroad ends abruptly by a sleepy village about 75 miles west of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Construction of what was intended to be a flagship infrastructure project for eastern Africa was halted earlier this year after China withheld some $4.9bn (€4.4bn) in funding needed to allow the line's completion.
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