President Ruto pitches for SGR linking African's east and Western coasts
President William Ruto and First Lady Rachel Ruto are received at the Great Hall of the People during a State banquet hosted by President Xi Jinping for visiting Heads of State and government in Beijing, China, on October 17, 2023.
President Ruto said he had held discussions with his peers in Uganda, the DR Congo and Congo-Brazzaville on extending the project from coast to coast.
In August, Kenya and Uganda inked an agreement to jointly solicit for financiers to extend the SGR to Malaba and on to Kampala.
President William Ruto on Tuesday revealed that Africa was willing to expand cross-border infrastructure networks in a pitch to Chinese investors, while seeking to appeal to Beijing to consider extending the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) beyond Kenya.
The President’s pitch was the clearest hint yet that Nairobi was seeking money to continue the Chinese-built SGR project that is currently stalled at Naivasha.
