Kenyan and Ugandan officials will jointly seek funding from the Chinese government for a standard-gauge railway linking the two East African neighbors. “Even at presidential level @KagutaMuseveni and @UKenyatta have given us instructions to continue with the construction and financing of the @SGR_Uganda,” Ugandan Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said Friday […]
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Ghana and Japan have initiated discussions towards the establishment of a metro rail transport system in Accra. The Accra metro rail system, which will operate on the lines of the Tokyo system, will be in line with the government’s efforts to restore the country’s rail network to its past glory […]
The Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL) has started a comprehensive audit of all coaches in the country’s rail sector to identify and refurbish malfunctioning ones. There are about 40 coaches across the country but some of them have become faulty because of long years of neglect. In an engineering audit […]
The Abuja-Kaduna rail line is one of the first standard gauge railway modernisation projects (SGRMP) undertaken in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. The standard gauge line connects federal capital city Abuja with its commercial capital Kaduna, enabling faster movement of goods and people between the two cities. China […]
For Victor Ikure, working as a train operator for the newly commissioned light rail in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja is almost a dream come true. The 28-year-old Nigerian had a dream of playing an important role in the growth of the transport sector in his country when he bagged a […]