Workers lay tracks for the standard gauge railway Phase 2A at Suswa, Kenya on August 1, 2018. Uganda has signed a new contract for the construction of the Malaba-Kampala phase.
The inference from the Latin idiom potiusque sero quam nunquam “better late than never,” is that it is better to do something late than not at all. This might be the appropriate reaction by Ugandans and the wider East African Community to the news that Kampala has made its most definitive commitment yet to get its standard gauge railway (SGR) project off the ground.
Sixteen years since it committed to the joint development of an SGR line running from Mombasa to Kigali with its Northern Corridor partners Kenya and Rwanda, Kampala had long become the man out of step in the region.
