Nairobi–Malaba Standard Gauge Railway Nairobi–Malaba Standard Gauge Railway The Nairobi–Malaba Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a standard-gauge railway that connects Kenya's capital city of Nairobi to Malaba, at the international border with Uganda. The Nairobi–Malaba SGR is expected to connect to other standard gauge railways in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, under the East African Railway Master Plan. The KSh700 billion (US$7 billion) project, is being built in phases. The Nairobi–Naivasha Section is under construction, as of July 2018, with the Naivasha–Kisumu Section to follow and finally the Kisumu–Malaba Section to conclude the Kenya Standard Gauge Railway
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