Museveni lifts hope of extending Kenya’s SGR to Uganda border
A cargo train at the Naivasha Inland Container Depot in Kenya. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced plans to build a new SGR linking the country’s capital, Kampala with the Kenyan border. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced plans to build a new standard gauge railway(SGR) linking the country’s capital, Kampala with the Kenyan border, raising hope for the completion of a similar link between Naivasha and Malaba via Kisumu.
“We’re going to build a brand new [SGR line] from Kampala to Kasese. Later on, we will [extend it] from Kampala to the border of Kenya and then to South Sudan,” he told the third biannual meeting of private sector chief executive officers in Karuma on Tuesday. “We want [to lower the] cost of transport [and] improve our competitiveness,” he added.
