Today marks 123 years since the settlement today known as Nairobi came to be. It is a settlement that grew out of a need to speed up the work on the Uganda Railway, or the Lunatic Express ...

The Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) is poised to undergo a transport and infrastructural revolution. Just like a century ago, when the city was founded as a railway depot and staff ...

The Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has revolutionized Kenya's transportation sector, providing a swifter and ...

Image Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, left, and Uhuru Kenyatta, then the president of Kenya, at the signing of the Standard Gauge Railway agreement in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, in 2014.Credit ...

Passengers on board the Standard Gauge Railway train from Suswa, Kenya, to Nairobi.Credit...Sarah Waiswa for The New York Times Both leading candidates in the campaign to pick Mr. Kenyatta’s ...

NAIROBI started in 1896 as a transport depot on a site that was none too favourable except for the railway which reached it three years later from the coast. Since then it has grown rapidly but ...

The £100m for the urban development project, hoped to rejuvenate the area around Nairobi’s Central Railway station, accounts for approximately half of the total funding for phase one. Gold and cocoa: ...

is not a success when passengers disgorge from a packed train of around 12 carriages at the Syokimau railway terminus in the capital, Nairobi - the last service of the day. They have travelled non ...

The 3,000-kilometer (1,864-mile) standard-gauge railway will link the new port to the central Kenyan town of Isiolo, and branch into three to Addis Ababa, Juba and Nairobi, according to the ...