The Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) is to take over running the country’s new Mombasa-Nairobi standard gauge railway from the Chinese company Africa Star (Afristar) by the end of the year,…

UK architect Void Studios has won a competition to design a Conservation Centre for Kenya’s Maasai Mara nature reserve. The centre will be located next to the Oloololo Gate, one…

China is in detailed talks with Kenya over turning a one-lane road running around 200km from the outskirts of Nairobi northwest to the town of Mau Summit into a four-lane…

Kenyan President William Ruto yesterday attended the groundbreaking for a 35MW geothermal power plant in the Rift Valley county of Nakura, some 200km northwest of Nairobi. The $90m project is…

Gunmen killed four construction workers building a hospital near a refugee camp in northern Kenya on Friday, the Kenyan Star reports. The construction site is near Kenya’s largest refugee camp,…

Kenya has secured $3.6bn of funding for a 440km motorway between the capital of Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa. The Usahihi Expressway is set to become the longest…

China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) has begun work on a 60,000-seat stadium in Nairobi, Kenyan broadcaster NYT reports.  The Talanta Sports City will be one of the main venues…

President Ruto of Kenya is to use his visit to Beijing later this month to ask China for a $1bn loan to restart work on stalled road projects. He will…

Kenya has signed an agreement with Ethiopia to build a 3,000km standard gauge railway network between its newly completed Lamu Port and Addis Ababa, the East Africannews site reports.   Work…

Uganda and Kenya are seeking at least $6bn to restart work on the standard gauge railway (SGR) to connect central Africa to the port of Mombasa. China financed the first…

In a bid to boost domestic businesses, a Kenyan lawmaker will submit a bill to Parliament that would prevent foreign contractors from bidding for state-funded construction contracts valued below 20…

A joint venture of cement giant Holcim and British International Investment, called 14Trees, has printed 10 houses for sale in Kenya.

Kenya’s government plans to invest more than $3bn in irrigation works over the next four years in an effort to deal with the region’s calamitous drought, news site Afrik21 reports. …

After lengthy prefeasibility studies, the Kenya’s nuclear power authority has picked two possible sites for the country’s first commercial reactors, newspaper The Star reports.