Kenya Standard Gauge Railway contracts: What released documents say, and what they don’t: A freight train runs on the Mombasa-Nairobi railway track in July 2022. Photo by Dong Jianghui/Xinhua via Getty Images A media frenzy has erupted in Kenya over the November 5, 2022 release of three Chinese loan contracts signed between the Kenyan government …
Mombasa Port: how Kenya’s auditor-general misread China’s Standard Gauge Railway contracts: A general view shows the Standard Gauge Railway train constructed by the Chinese Communications Construction Company and financed by Chinese government. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images In December 2018, a leaked letter from the Kenyan auditor-general’s office sparked a rumour that Kenya had staked …
Projects like Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway can unlock development: shutterstock Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, which links Nairobi and Mombasa, East Africa’s largest port, was built to ease the pressure on the road network. Construction started in 2013 and was completed in 2017, with an extension in 2019. The line transports passengers as well as cargo. …
A computer science technique could help gauge when the pandemic is ‘over’: The world wants the pandemic to end and life to return to normal. When will that happen? Marc Fernandes/NurPhoto via Getty Images In early 2022, nearly two years after Covid was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, experts are mulling a …
South Africa in the news: South African municipal vote to gauge support for ruling ANC: South Africans are voting on Monday in local government elections that will offer an indication if support for the ruling African National Congress …: “South Africa” – BingNews T20 World Cup: Pakistan will play its fourth match against Namibia on …
A cool Port Elizabeth image: 13418 (744) 08-07-1974 South African Railways narrow gauge steam locomotive class NG15 No 147 working an up goods train on the Avontuur branch east of The Heights, Cape Province, South Africa. Image by express000 I D No 13418 (744) photographed by John Ward on the date of 1974-07-08 using large …
South Africa in the news: EFF aiming to gauge its chances in 2019 election: Sickness doesn’t say: ‘I’ll come at eight in the morning.’ There is no shortage of money in South Africa; most of the monies that are allocated to these institutions get returned at the end of the year unspent,” said Mpofu. The …