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Kenya roots for SGR despite Rwanda’s exit

Ms Bett Maina, PS State Department of East African affairs.

Rwanda’s decision to re-route its standard gauge railway (SGR) from Kenya to Tanzania will not have adverse effect on Kenya, a state official has said.

The Principal Secretary State Department of East African Affairs Betty Maina told The Standard that 70 per cent of the goods imported through the port of Mombasa, where Kenya’s Sh327 billion SGR is supposed to terminate, end up in Nairobi.

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