What a Railway in Kenya Reveals About How China Builds Things in Africa
The China in Africa Podcast
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The Long-Term Impact of the SGR on China Exenbank
Cobus: SGR had a very chilling effect on whether China Exenbank was going to finance other large scale railway projects in Africa. In Nigeria, in particular, where a number of railway projects, standard gauge as well, were put on ice and the Chinese backed away from it. Now we've come into the small or beautiful project phase, which we've talked about on previous shows. Cobus: It's the United States now that wants to step up into the railway building business. So they're putting forward $250 million in Angola for the libito corridor.
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