{Rwanda has initially opted to develop rail links to Indian Ocean ports through Tanzania because they were cheaper and shorter than the route transiting Kenya, Finance Minister Claver Gatete said.}<\/p>\n
According to him, studies done by member states in the six-nation East African Community (EAC) showed that the Tanzanian option would cost about 800 to 900 million US dollars. In an interview at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in the capital, Kigali, Mr Gatete reported that the Kenyan project would cost one billion US dollars, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working on the Dar es Salaam one, which will be cheaper because it\u2019s the shortest route,\u201d the Rwandan minister told reporters. In 2013, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda agreed to link up to the Kenyan port of Mombasa along a standard-gauge railway estimated to cost 13 billion US dollars.<\/p>\n
The project was scheduled to be completed by March 2018. The \u2018East African\u2019, a Nairobi-based newspaper, reported on May 3 that Rwanda was in talks with Tanzania and Burundi concerning a shared route through their countries instead because Uganda\u2019s plans to develop a link to its northern neighbour, South Sudan, would delay the Rwandan portion of the project.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the second time Kenya may lose out on plans to develop regional infrastructure. Last month, President John Magufuli secured an agreement to have a pipeline in western Uganda routed to the Tanzanian port of Tanga.<\/p>\n
That scuppered an accord between Kenya and Uganda in October 2015 for the conduit to pass through northern Kenya to a proposed port at Lamu. The railway route via Tanzania will link Kigali to a port in Tanzania\u2019s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, according to the project\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
A new railway is being built from Isaka in northwestern Tanzania to Kigali, with a branch to Musongati in neighbouring Burundi. The existing railway from Dar es Salaam to Isaka is being upgraded.<\/p>\n
Mr Gatete said Rwanda planned to continue using ports in both Tanzania and Kenya. \u201cOur trade goes through Dar es Salaam and Mombasa,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will need both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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