The Kenyan government has resumed plans to build the Kenya-Ethiopia Railway. Construction will begin in 2025. It will be a standard-gauge, high-speed, electric railway and cost $13.8 billion. The railway line will run from the new Lamu port in Lamu, Kenya, to Ethiopia, and then later be extended to South Sudan, covering a distance of 3,000 kilometers. It will link the brand-new port to Isiolo and later will branch into three routes to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Juba, South Sudan, and eventually Nairobi, Kenya. According to the Lapsset Corridor Development Authority, which is the agency that manages the project, the government of Kenya is arranging for $9 million from the African Union infrastructure fund to finance feasibility and engineering studies.
The railway is part of the proposed $22 billion Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport Corridor and will likely include the building of oil pipelines, a refinery plant, roads, and airports.
