BELTS AND ROAD INITIATIVE

Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, a multibillion-dollar Chinese-funded Belt and Road Initiative project is facing serious setbacks that could damage international relations between China and Kenya. On Friday, a Kenyan appellate court declared the rail contract between Kenya and the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) illegal. Kenyan activist Okiya Omtatah and the Law Society of Kenya, an association of practising advocates, brought the suit in 2014 in a bid to stop construction of the SGR. They…