Clear the air over fate of Mombasa Port

Uganda and Rwanda have jointly sunk the prospects of making the Standard Gauge Railway viable, in effect exposing Kenya to a financial crisis. It had initially been thought that the two landlocked neighbours, and the politically unstable South Sudan, would be party to the mega project.

Inter-connectivity of the countries by rail would mean that all imports for the region entering through the Mombasa Port could easily be placed on the railway – to generate enough revenue to quickly repay the project lenders.