Rwanda Says Tanzanian Rail Option Is Cheaper, Shorter Than Kenya

Rwanda is focusing on developing proposed rail links to ports on the Indian Ocean through Tanzania first because it’s cheaper and shorter than a route transiting Kenya, Finance Minister Claver Gatete said. Studies done by member states in the six-nation East African Community showed that the Tanzanian option would cost about $800 million to $900 million, Gatete said in an interview Thursday at the World Economic Forum on Africa in the capital, Kigali. The Kenyan project would cost $1 billion, he said. “We are working on the Dar es Salaam one, which will be cheaper because it’s the shortest route,” Gatete said. Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda in 2013 agreed to link up to the Kenyan port of Mombasa along ...

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