Kenya-China to start negotiations on financing final phase of SGR to Kisumu

Madaraka Express Inter-County Service train leave after its flagged off by Transport CS James Macharia at SGR Nairobi Terminus on Wednesday [Photo: Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Kenya and China are set to start negotiations on the financing of the last phase of the Standard Gauge Railway (Project) that will see the new railway extended to Kisumu.

During a Chinese infrastructure summit in China in May this year, which was attended by President Uhuru Kenyatta, China committed to finance the third phase of the SGR project that has been estimated to cost Sh350 billion. The Naivasha-Kisumu leg is expected to increase cost of the whole SGR project to over Sh800 billion.