Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya, recently stated that the Chinese government has made a commitment to provide assistance in building a Kenyan port. The plan for the port—to be constructed at Lamu on the northeastern coast— was earlier proposed in April 2008. The new port will be bigger than Kenya’s existing port at Mombasa. According to the latest updates from the country’s Ministry of Transport, the project will cost the Kenyan government around $22 billion and involve the construction of a railway line, three airports and a highway linking Ethiopia, Southern Sudan and Rwanda to the airports. |
