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The East African Railway Master Plan is a proposal for rejuvenating the railways serving Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, and building new railways to serve Rwanda and Burundi. The objective is to further the economic development of East Africa by increasing the efficiency and speed, and lowering the cost, of transporting cargo between major ports ...
The Uganda Standard Gauge Railway is a planned railway system linking the country to the neighboring countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, as part of the East African Railway Master Plan. The new standard-gauge railway (SGR) is intended to replace the old, inefficient metre-gauge railway system. The ...
It is also part of the East African Railway Masterplan. Kenya and Ethiopia signed an agreement to build the 3000 km LAPSSET railway at a cost of USD 13.8 billion in September 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition to connecting the capital cities of the two countries, Addis Ababa and Nairobi with a Standard Gauge Railway, it will also connect Ethiopia ...
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The Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a railway system, under construction and partially in operation, serving Tanzania and linking it to the neighbouring countries of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, and through these to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as part of the East African Railway Master Plan.
The East African Railway Master Plan provides for the Mombasa–Nairobi SGR to link with other SGRs being built in the East African Community. [4] At a cost of US$3.6 billion, the SGR was among Kenya's most expensive infrastructure projects as at the time it was launched.
Construction of the railway is also aimed at intensifying the exploitation of the world's tenth largest nickel deposits located at Musongati, [2] as well as enabling exploitation of Burundi's lithium and cobalt deposits. The East African Community as well as the African Union have consequently named the railway as one of their top priorities. [3]
Proposed railway stations in Africa (1 C) Pages in category "Proposed rail infrastructure in Africa" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.