THE Kenyan government has decided to allocate an additional $US 1.4bn from its 2015-16 budget for the project, currently underway, to build a 609km standard-gauge line from the port of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi. 

IRJ at UITP 2015, Milan. Sir Peter Hendy, who has completed his two-year term as UITP president handed over to his successor Mr Masaki Ogata at the closing ceremony of the 2015 congress.

A new board of directors at TransNamib is providing a life-line to Namibia's railway, which has suffered from decades of under-investment in its network and fleet, as Paul Ash reports from Windhoek.

TWO contracts valued at $US 9bn have been awarded by the Tanzanian government to Chinese civil engineering companies to construct two new standard-gauge railways, one linking the country to Burundi and Rwanda, and the other connecting mines to a port.

Ethiopia is engaging in a highly ambitious railway construction programme as the government attempts to lay the foundations for economic growth. Chinese finance is supporting the majority of the schemes but as Michele Molinari and Noah Gunzinger of Swiss consultancy firm Molinari Rail, reveal, the Weldiya - Awash project is taking a different approach.

With new locomotives and EMUs set to revitalise its dilapidated fleet, Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa is starting to overcome decades of underinvestment. Yet more is required to meet the needs of a growing and increasingly urban population, as group CEO Lucky Montana reveals in an exclusive interview with Paul Ash.

RIFT Valley Railways (RVR), the concessionaire operating the 1160km Kenya Uganda Railway, managed to increase freight traffic by 24.3% last year.

INECO has announced that it will undertake a feasibility study of a proposed Egyptian high-speed line, linking the cities of Cairo and Luxor. The 600km long corridor would connect the two largest cities of the country, with the aim of strengthening tourism infrastructure.

MANAGERS from Cameroon railway concessionaire Camrail and government representatives visited the port of Douala on April 18 to witness the unloading of two new GL30SCM DC diesel locomotives.

CHINA Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) subsidiary China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation Nigeria has signed $US 3.51bn contract with the government of the state of Ogun for the construction of a 334km standard-gauge line.