Nairobi and Kampala said to be in a quiet rivalry to connect their SGR segments to South Sudan as Uganda-Rwanda leg is deemed uneconomical. TEA GRAPHIC |
As they prepare to converge for their quarterly infrastructure summit in Nairobi early next month, Presidents Paul Kagame, Uhuru Kenyatta and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, will present the usual picture of easy camaraderie as they push the region’s core infrastructure agenda.
However, a rare public rebuke in which President Kagame questioned Kampala’s haste to connect Juba to the Northern Corridor SGR network during the June summit, gave a hint of the lingering rivalries and hard economic calculations that are informing individual decisions among the partners.
