THE Kenyan parliament's Public Investment Committee (PIC) has halted a $US 41m contract awarded to a consortium led by China's Third Railway Survey and Design Institute (TSDI) to supervise construction of the Nairobi – Mombasa standard-gauge line.
THE Kenyan government has released $US 88m to compensate people whose land will be taken up by the $US 3.6bn project to build a 609km standard-gauge railway linking Nairobi with Mombasa. The decision comes one month after a High Court suspended construction due to a dispute over compensation.
KENYA's Ministry of Finance has announced it will release an initial $US 252.8m towards the construction of a double-track standard-gauge line from the port of Mombasa to the Kenya/Uganda border town of Malaba with a branch to Kisumu on Lake Victoria.
KENYA's president, Mr Mwai Kibaki, officially opened a $US 4.7m 2.3km extension of the Nairobi – Embakasi line to Syokimau on November 14, which is said to be the first new station built in Kenya for 80 years.
KENYA Railway Corporation (KRC) has revived an international tender for a design and build turnkey project for a 7km commuter line in Nairobi after it was suspended in the second quarter when Kenya put on hold a planned $US 200m infrastructure bond.