The Ugandan share of the new Standard Gauge Railway project between Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan has now secured some 3.2 billion US Dollars in funding which will be provided by the Chinese government.

 

Although the Kenyan portion is in part already under construction, this section only reaches up to the Ugandan border from where separate work contracts will be needed to cross the Uganda.

 

Ugandan President Museveni himself witnessed the signing of the deal with the China Harbor Engineering Company, which will be handing the engineering and procurement side of the project.

The main line of the new railroad will cross Uganda and link the border with Kampala from there the line is expected to move on to the border with Rwanda while the dormant line from Kampala to Kasese will also be upgraded. In addition will a branch line go north to connect the South Sudanese border town of Nimule, from where the section to Juba and beyond then has to be constructed under separate contracts.

 

Recently the Tanzania also reaffirmed their plans to launch the construction of a new SGR line from Dar es Salaam to connect to their lake side port city of Mwanza but also on to Kigali and Bujumbura.