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France rescues JKIA rail track with Sh14bn deal

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Business Daily | by Bonface Otieno


Plans to construct a railway line linking Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Nairobi’s city centre are back on track after Kenya secured Sh14 billion loan from the French government.

Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia told the Business Daily in an interview Friday that a commercial agreement to construct the five-kilometre line have been closed, setting the stage for start of construction from March.

The loan will also aid the revamp the old 17-kilometre railway track that links to the SGR line at Syokimau from…

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