The Treasury has proposed an allocation of Sh16.5 billion to fund the extension of the standard gauge railway (SGR) from ...

Last month, Benon Kajuna took over office as the new chief executive of Uganda Railways Corporation replacing David Musoke Bulega who retired from service last year. Prosper Magazine’s Dorothy ...

“The railway will reduce transport costs and this will make it easier for businesses to make profits. I challenge the people of eastern Uganda to position themselves and tap opportunities ...

UGANDA: A Limited Notice to Proceed has been issued along with US$83m of funding to enable lead contractor Yapı Merkezi to ...

It is a settlement that grew out of a need to speed up the work on the Uganda Railway, or the Lunatic Express, as some termed the new line in derision. Perhaps there would be no Nairobi as we know ...

China’s proposal of a new funding structure to finance most of a stalled Standard Gauge Railway extension bordering Uganda will allow Kenya to revive the project, according to Nairobi.

Kisumu was one of the last towns created when the Uganda railway reached those shores in 1901. The name was fleshed from ‘Sumo,’ which literally means ‘place of barter trade,’ since people ...

In these colonies they worked on plantations, in mines and on new railway systems the British wanted to introduce. 32,000 Indian labourers went to Uganda as indentured labourers. In the 1890s ...

They are calculated investments; the long-term pathway towards economic development envisioned in the policy blueprint, ...