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How new Standard gauge railway millionaires are spending compensation cash

Kenya: Winds of change are blowing across some villages in Coast region where impoverished peasants have been transformed into overnight millionaires with astounding results.

The millionaires are being created along the route where the Standard Gauge Railway is being constructed, and Kenya Railways has already paid out over Sh5 billion to farmers whose land will be alienated for the railway line.

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