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    East Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia Get U.S.$452 Million for Roads
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    The project aims at improving transportation between Kenya and Ethiopia and for the benefit of the region. "It will promote intraregional trade, reduce transport and shipping costs between Kenya and Ethiopia, reduce transit time for imports and exports and increase the volume of Ethiopian goods transiting through the Mombasa port in Kenya and Horn of Africa" said the bank's chief transportation engineer, Mr. Amadou Oumarou. Full Article at AllAfrica.com
    It will promote intraregional trade, reduce transport and shipping costs between Kenya and Ethiopia, reduce transit time for imports and exports and increase the volume of Ethiopian goods transiting through the Mombasa port in Kenya and Horn of Africa
    SOURCE: AllAfrica.com 1 month ago
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East Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia Get U.S.$452 Million for Roads
  1. It must take into account not only the construction or improvement of the road, but also the capacity expansion of the port of Mombasa, the construction of transit infrastructure facilities, and the policy and operational changes for trade and transport facilitation
    SOURCE: AllAfrica.com 1 month ago

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