kenya new railway vs ethiopia

[Magate]

kenya is nearing completion of the 1st phase new railway line from Mombasa to Nairobi ,

Many have suggested that kenya got shafted and is building an expensive line compared to Ethiopia,

but recent pics and updates might suggest otherwise, although not an electric line, it has a larger carrying capacity of 22 million tonnes per year compared to Ethiopia 8.5 million tons and can be upgraded to sustain maximum speeds of 240 km/h after electrification from the current 180km/h,

diesel trains bought by Kenya run similar to electric trains of Ethiopia at average of 120 km/h with maximum of 160 km/h

did kenya get a raw deal ? see below:

 

[Magate]

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[MARAQ DIGAAG]

Long live the great Madow nation of Kenya .

 

[Cotton Eyed Joe]

Kenya's looks WAY better than Ethiopias to Djibouti. Is it built by Chinese? If so Ethiopians probably stole and cut around corners to lootlike they steal aid.

 

[gurey]

It looks fantastic

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

totally bypasses every somali city and village. nacalaa kenyaati, keeping the somali region under developed has always been both ethiopia and kenya policy. the day somalis unite and send these fuckers packing i hope to be alive

 

[Steamdevolopment]

At least their developing their region instead of bombing each other and killing over qabil

 

[Steamdevolopment]

totally bypasses every somali city and village. nacalaa kenyaati, keeping the somali region under developed has always been both ethiopia and kenya policy. the day somalis unite and send these fuckers packing i hope to be alive

It requires for us to be united in the homeland first, and not counting SL, not even the patriotic south is united

 

[TheMadMullah]

The infrastructure looks decent but ethiopias has modern trains that run on electricity while kenya bought Old refurbished locomotives that run on diesel

 

[Hemaal]

Looks decent! Who funded it?

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

nigerians are the ones gettin shafted by their leaders. they got old locomotives as light rails

nigerian reactions

 

[Magate]

Looks decent! Who funded it?

90% chinese loan 10%kenya govt ,
off course more than a quarter of the loan amount goes back to china through the contractor who built it , usually a condition of any infrastructure project funded by china.