KENYA-CHINA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI RAILWAY

KENYA-CHINA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI RAILWAY

Xinhua
21 Feb 2026, 08:15 GMT+

(260221) -- NAIROBI, Feb. 21, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Elephants are pictured through the window aboard a train along the Mombasa-Nairobi railway at Tsavo East National Park in Taita-Taveta County, Kenya, Feb. 19, 2026. Stretching 472 km from the port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi in Kenya, the Chinese-built Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was launched on May 31, 2017. It is the first new railway built in Kenya since independence and a flagship project of China-Kenya cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative. (Xinhua/Xie Jianfei)

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