The Kenya-Uganda Railway

The NYTimes reports on a regional infrastructure initiative:

Kenya and Uganda plan to build a new railway from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to cope with increased trade among the East African countries and their landlocked neighbors, officials said. The two countries are now served by a meter-gauge track built at the turn of the 20th century and officials say it carries less than 6 percent of freight destined for Kenya’s interior and countries in the region...[continue reading]