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What Does Kenya's SGR Tell Us About the Future of Chinese Railway Development in the Global South

The China in Africa Podcast

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The Kenyan Government's Reversal of the Custom Clearing Decision?

The road tracking and logistics sector was hit particularly badly by the SGR. We've seen over the last while after the victory of William Ruto as president that he reversed an earlier decision to locate a lot of port logistics away from Mombasa towards Nivasa. This is an issue that I have yet to look into because at the time when I was visiting the SGR, the decision hasn't been reversed. And I also think that domestic political interests are definitely at play here. So there's a big risk in all of this in these dynamics of moving the traffic away from the S GR. Let's see if it will play out and be productive by that.

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