Workers at the Lapsset project in Kenya. Some 2,000 casual labourers were recently sent home by Lapsset contractor, China Communications Construction Company, after an al-Shabaab attack. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Three years after Kenya and its landlocked neighbours Ethiopia and South Sudan committed to raise funds to build infrastructure linking their economies on the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (Lapsset) Corridor, not much has happened.
Kenya Lapsset Corridor Development Authority Chair Titus Ibui said there was a need to mobilise funds and improve on security to ensure the projects are completed.
