KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda's government and Turkish construction firm Yapi Merkezi signed a contract to build a 272 kilometre (169 miles) section of railway, in a bid to boost regional trade, a Ugandan ...

KAMPALA, July 26 (Reuters) - Standard Chartered Bank is interested in financing Uganda's planned Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), a statement from President Yoweri Museveni's office said, after the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Kenya said it is in talks with the UAE to expand a railway line to Uganda and South Sudan. “We are exploring a partnership agreement with the United Arab Emirates to extend the Standard ...

Kenya, desperate for funding, has not ruled out China’s involvement in the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line to the borders with Uganda, even though its neighbouring country ...

Uganda plans to build a rail line linking a town in the east to a proposed port on Lake Victoria for a combined $600 million, which will provide better logistics links through Tanzania to the Indian ...

The 273km Eastern Route Railway project will be fully electrified. Credit: Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock. The government of Uganda has signed a $3bn contract with Yapı Merkezi for the construction of ...