Kenyan conservationists have expressed outrage at the construction of a railway line inside Nairobi’s famed national park, saying this defied a court order halting the project. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Construction labourers work on a pillar of the controversial railway line in the Nairobi national park. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty ImagesA small group of activists held a protest on Thursday to demand that the government comply with court orders stopping construction. A first 483km (300-mile) railway line from Mombasa to a terminal east of the Nairobi national park was completed in 2017. The tribunal ordered construction be stopped until the case could be heard, which it was required by law to do.

Source: The Guardian March 01, 2018 16:53 UTC