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   Nairobi (AFP) - China on Sunday signed a deal to build a $3.8 billion   
   rail link between Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi, the   
   first stage of a line that will eventually link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi   
   and South Sudan.   
      
   Under the terms of the agreement, Exim Bank of China will provide 90   
   percent of the cost to replace the crumbling British colonial-era line   
   with a 609.3 kilometre (379 mile) standard-gauge link and Kenya the   
   remaining 10 percent.   
      
   Construction is due to start in October and take three-and-a-half years   
   to complete, with China Communications Construction Co. as the main   
   contractor. Once the Mombasa-Nairobi line is completed, construction   
   would begin to link east Africa's largest economy with Kampala, Kigali,   
   Bujumbura and Juba.   
      
   The deal was signed at State House in Nairobi and witnessed by   
   presidents Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Paul   
   Kagame of Rwanda and Salva Kiir of South Sudan.   
      
   "This project demonstrates that there is equal cooperation and mutual   
   benefit between China and the East African countries, and the railway is   
   a very important part of transport infrastructure development," Chinese   
   Premier Li Keqiang said.   
   --http://news.yahoo.com/china-signs-mega-east-africa-rail-deal-1   
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