China Belt and Road can drive Kenya growth

In the past five decades, the Africa-China ties have developed significantly. By June 2018 China had risen to become Kenya’s second leading lender after the World Bank having advanced the country Sh557 billion ($5.5 billion) against the Bank’s Sh581 billion ($5.8 billion).

The emergence in September 2013 of the Chinese “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) was an additional chapter in the history of relations between China and African countries. China’s President Xi Jinping recently announced that the second Belt and Road Forum for international Cooperation will be held this April in China. It was inaugurated in May 2017.