Shipping & Logistics Northern counties bet on Sh81bn road to spur tradeA section of Isiolo town. The funds from the World Bank will be used to upgrade 365km of the 740km - Isiolo-Mandera Regional Road Corridor and 30km of spur roads, while the remaining sections will be financed by other development partners. The loan facility is billed as the single largest credit facility to be approved in the World Bank history for Sub Saharan Africa. “The road corridor is a regional route, which serves as a transit route connecting Kenya to Somalia and landlocked Ethiopia. The urban areas along the road corridor will also get an upgrade of up to 30km of bitumen standard roads.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 15, 2020 18:45 UTC