Uganda has cancelled a deal with a Chinese contractor to build a $2.3bn railway after Beijing decided not to fund the scheme, Bloomberg reports. Perez Wamburu, Uganda’s project coordinator, told…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lend Uganda $301m to upgrade the Kampala–Malaba Metre Gauge Railway (MGR) to link the landlocked country to Kenya and its port of Mombasa. AfDB…