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Why Chinese bank imposed SGR line operator on Kenya

Kenya Railways managing director Atanas Maina. PHOTO | FILE

A China-based financier forced Kenya and Uganda to pick a Chinese company as the operator of the rail business on the standard gauge railway (SGR) without public bidding.

State-owned China Exim Bank told Uganda that they would only get funding to build their section on condition that it agrees with Kenya to hire the Chinese contractor to run the line from Mombasa to Kampala.

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