Overview:
- Mombasa-Nairobi railway.
- The new standard gauge railway (SGR) is the largest project to be undertaken by the Government of the Republic of Kenya in five decades and is a flagship project under the Kenya Vision 2030 development agenda.
- The Mombasa–Nairobi line constitutes the first phase of the SGR Project that aims to connect Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan.
- The railway will shorten travel time from Mombasa to Nairobi from more than ten hours to a little more than four hours.
- The project began tests of the infrastructure in May 2017.
Anna Kozakova - Journalist