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Kenya’s railway: Trouble ahead, but limited debt risk

It is very unlikely that the new Nairobi-Mombasa railway will, as Kenya’s government hopes, break even next year. But fears that the troubled line will push up to Kenya’s debt repayment costs are misplaced.

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