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Secrets of SGR contract with China: How Kenya got the short end of the stick

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Billion-shillings affair: The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

What kind of deal did Kenya and China get into to have the SGR project up and running?

At the close of the last financial year, Kenya was rumoured to have defaulted on a scheduled payment for an assortment of Chinese financiers behind the Standard Gauge Railway, a claim vehemently denied by former Treasury boss Ukur Yatani.

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