Talks between Kenya and Uganda when President Yoweri Museveni visited Kenya recently mainly focused on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and operations at the Port of Mombasa.
The main reason the two facilities took centre stage is obvious to see; the 2018 port transit report places Uganda as the biggest user of the port where it had imported 7.4 million metric tonnes of goods last year. It was an increase from 6.5 million tonnes of goods compared with the previous year. The country’s transit...