Meter gauge railway

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has offered $301 million that will be spent on renovating the Kampala-Malaba Meter Gauge Railway (MGR) in Uganda.

The railway line is part of the East African Community’s Northern Corridor linking Kampala to Mombasa.

Parliament has approved a government request to borrow 216.7 million euros from the African Development Fund (ADF), €84.41 million euros from the African Development Bank (ADB) and €25.9m from the Corporate Internalisation Fund of Spain.