After long delays in receiving funding from the Exim Bank of China for a $2.2-billion rail line, Uganda recently ended its contract with China Harbour Engineering Co., opting instead to invite Turkey-based Yapi Merkezi to exploring building the project.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. President Emmerson Mnangawa's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa held the same job under deposed strongman Robert Mugabe.
The standard-gauge line route stretches from Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to land-locked Rawanda and Burundi and parallels the existing narrow-gauge line for much of the way before establishing new links to the interior.