Kenyans Cheer Opening Of Mombasa-Nairobi Railway
The line was financed with more than $3 billion borrowed from the Chinese government. A Chinese company built it, and a Chinese company will operate it for the first five years.
Just after the sun rose on Wednesday, people began streaming into the Mombasa terminal station. There was a red carpet, a helicopter and Kenyans dressed in their very best attire, with shimmering fabrics and dazzling hats.
A little more than a hundred years after the British built a railway through their East African colony, Kenyans celebrated building one of their own.
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