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Going East: What China diplomatic forays mean for us

Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

After a three-year delay, it now appears the Nairobi-Mau Summit road project that was supposed to be dialled through French government funding might finally take off, according to insider sources.

The project could soon be handled by different partners if recent talks between President William Ruto and the new powerful Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi - also a member of the Political Bureau of the China Communist Party Central Committee - is anything to go by.

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