President Uhuru Kenyatta has struck a deal with the visiting Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed Ali to speed up the construction of the 500KV transmission line allowing Kenya to import electricity from Addis Ababa.
China Electric Power Equipment and Technology (CET) began to work on the Ethiopian side of the 1,045km line in August 2016 but the high cost of wayleave has slowed the Kenyan side of the project.
