Kenya, France finalize deal to fund Nairobi Commuter Railway

NAIROBI, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Kenya and France have finalized an agreement to facilitate funding for the upgrading of the Nairobi Commuter Railway, a rail network serving Nairobi and its suburbs, officials said on Saturday.

Musalia Mudavadi, prime cabinet secretary who is also the cabinet secretary for foreign and diaspora affairs, told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that the east African nation will receive a 138.7-million-U.S. dollar loan to modernize its metropolitan railway line.