China’s built a railroad to nowhere in Kenya

A Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) cargo train leaves the port of Mombasa in May loaded with goods destined for Nairobi. The SGR ends at Naivasha. [File, Standard]

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 doesn’t quite reach the border. Instead, the railroad ends abruptly by a sleepy village in Naivasha, about 75 miles west of Nairobi, where the tracks laid but unused.