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Kenya’s huge railway project is causing environmental damage

The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) at the Mombasa Terminus in Mombasa County. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Kenya is constructing a railway line that connects the coastal port of Mombasa and the interior of the country. It is expected to terminate at Malaba, a town on the border with Uganda, and link up with other railways that are being built in East Africa. It’s locally known as the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).

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