Chinese Prime Minister's visit to Kenya reverberates across the East
African region
Wolfgang H Thome's Blog 23:10 10-May-14
As the Chinese Prime Minister Li Kequiang is visiting neighbouring
Kenya have Chinese companies in Uganda also stepped up their charm
offensive. A delegation of the China Communications Construction Group
paid a courtesy call to President Museveni to brief him on progress
made with the construction of the new Kampala to Entebbe Highway,
which according to information given to the media will be ready as
planned by mid to late 2016. Notably will the new highway project also
construct one branch off near Kajjansi to link Uganda's prime
convention and conference facilities at Munyonyo with Entebbe, which
on completion will reduce the journey to and from the airport to about
half an hour for the 50 kilometres, compared to as many as two hours,
due to traffic congestion, at present.
The company also expressed their desire, now that progress on the
ground is visible along the route of the new highway, to be engaged in
the construction of the new multilane highway from Kampala to Jinja,
where a new bridge across the Nile is also being constructed courtesy
of the Japanese government.
President Museveni also met the chairman of the Chinese Export-Import
Bank, all part of a coordinated wave of visits by top Chinese business
leaders who have come with their Prime Minister to East Africa and
spread into the region to cement their growing influence and
importance vis a vis construction and project financing.
Yesterday were major financing agreements and deals signed in Nairobi
between the Kenyan and Chinese governments which does involve the
building of the new standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Nairobi and
then on to the Ugandan border, to Kampala and eventually to Kigali in
Rwanda, where Chinese companies were chosen in Kenya to build the rail
line from Mombasa to Tororo, while in Uganda contractual issues remain
unsolved at this stage as to which company will actually build the
Ugandan portion of the new line.
The presidents of the East African Community members Uganda, Rwanda,
Burundi and Tanzania are in fact expected in Nairobi today to meet
with the Chinese Prime Minister to discuss cooperation and projects of
their own, which in the case of Uganda involve the construction of the
new hydroelectric powerplant at Karuma as well as a number of other
projects in the road and energy sector.
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