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NAIROBI COMMUTER RAILWAY: KENYA AND FRANCE AGREED FUNDING DEAL
Over the weekend, Kenya and France signed an agreement to facilitate the funding for the upgrading of Nairobi Commuter Railway. The Railway is expected to serve as a rail network between Nairobi and its suburbs according to official reports.
Speaking to journalist, Musalia Mudavadi, prime cabinet secretary who is also the cabinet secretary for foreign and diaspora affairs said that the east African nation will receive a 138.7-million-U.S. dollar loan to modernize its metropolitan railway line from France.
Mudavadi said that “This project aligns with Kenya’s sustainable urban development initiatives, aiming to enhance transport services and mobility in the Nairobi metropolitan area,”
The briefing was done alongside French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stephane Sejourne as he noted that the two countries have agreed to expedite the implementation of a key project to create eight socio-sports and cultural complexes throughout the country that will be co-financed by the two countries to the tune of 76. 8 million dollars
French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stephane Sejourne on this part said that the deal will strength their bilateral cooperation on climate action as well as step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity by prioritizing green growth.
During their speech, both minister noted that their is a need to strengthen access to sustainable energy and welcomed Africa’s green industrialization initiative and transition launched by Kenya.
Meanwhile, both of them addressed their commitment to the full lifecycle of plastics and plastic pollution in all its dimensions, including primary plastic polymers and associated chemicals. While also emphasized the need to further preserve, protect and restore critical ecosystems, including forests and other wooded land, wetlands such as peatlands and mangroves and ocean that are the main natural carbon sinks and biodiversity reservoirs.
SOURCE: Independent (Kampala)