Kenya Standard Gauge Railway

This section, measuring 267 kilometres (166 mi), stretching from Naivasha to Kisumu, on the eastern shores of Lake Victoria, is contracted to China Communications Construction Company, at a budgeted cost of KSh.

[7] Loan papers between Kenya and China were scheduled for signatures in September 2018, but were deferred until a commercial viability study is conducted on the entire Mombasa–Kisumu railway.

[8] This section, measuring approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi), takes the SGR line to the town of Malaba, at the international border with Uganda.

[7] In May 2024, the Exim Bank of China indicated willingness to fund the extension of the Kenya SGR to the Ugandan border at Malaba.

[10] This railway line, totaling 1,500 kilometres (932 mi), is a component of the Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) development project.

[2] This 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) railway line is intended to ease the transfer of goods and passengers between the port of Mombasa and the cities of Nairobi and Kisumu, in Kenya, Kampala in Uganda, Kigali in Rwanda and subsequently to Bujumbura in Burundi, Juba in South Sudan and to Goma and Bunia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[18] Originally envisioned to extend to Kisangani, in line with the East Africa Railway Masterplan, the SGR project ran into political and financial hurdles, caused by Uganda's initial wait-and-see approach,[19] and Chinese hesitance to fund the Naivasha-Kisumu, Kisumu-Malaba, and Malaba-Kampala sections due to the Chinese economic crisis.

[20][21][22] In May 2024, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo committed to join the Kenyan-Ugandan initiative and funding drive, with an aim to extend the SGR to Kigali and Kisangani.