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Work on new railway line begins

President Uhuru Kenyatta receives a model of a modern train from the President of China Road and Bridge Corporation Wen Gang at State House, Nairobi. The firm will build a standard gauge rail that will run from Mombasa to Malaba.  [PHOTO: PSCU]

By MACHARIA KAMAU and TIMOTHY MACHI

Kenya: Kenya this Thursday embarks on a process that will make stale the joke that it has not added an inch to its colonial-era railway line.

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