President William Ruto has kept a campaign promise to return cargo clearance to Mombasa but with recent technological advances in cargo handling logistics, the only jobs...
Over the past 20 years Angola has been bilked of billions of US dollars earmarked for public projects that delivered little or no actual benefit to...
As of June this year, our public debt was 6.6 trillion shillings. Each Kenyan citizen, including those born now, owes creditors at least 139,000 shillings due...
The evidence suggests that the protestors in Mombasa are actually crying for the scraps of what was already a broken system that benefitted the elite few....
It goes without saying that the recently commissioned 120-kilometre Nairobi-Naivasha extension of the new railway line ending at Suswa is an economic puzzle, as the bulk...
RASNA WARAH explains why the decision to force importers to use rail transport could retard urban growth along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway, entrenching Nairobi’s position as the...
Was the SGR really necessary? What is its value addition to the country's overall economic well-being? Africa Uncensored's John-Allan Namu sat down with a fierce critic...
In the beginning was a fiction - that the Chinese railway would freight 22 million tonnes a year, and in so doing, replace the trucking business....
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” -Frederick Douglass The building of standard gauge (SGR) railways in both Uganda...
A bridge over the Likoni Channel? Unlikely (there’s a mafia in the ferry business). A railway line between Garissa and Isiolo? Unthinkable (we haven’t figured out...
