Uganda keen on regional rail, says minister

East African Community Lake Victoria Basin Commission Executive Secretary Dr. Ali Said Matano with Ugandan minister for Works and Transport Eng Monica Azuba Ntege during a familiarization tour at the Lake Victoria Basin office in Kisumu on October 31, 2018. [Collins Oduor/Standard]

The Ugandan government has denied claims that it has shelved plans to build a Standard gauge railway (SGR) to connect the country to Kenya as part of the Northern Corridor Integrated Project.

Uganda’s Works and Transport Minister Monica Azuba downplayed media reports that they were backing out on plans to extend the SGR from Malaba to Kampala in the wake of fears that Kenya was no longer interested in extending the line past the Kisumu port on Lake Victoria.