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Kenya names Chinese contractor for Mzima II water pipeline

Says project financing is approved and negotiations continue

Kenya has proposed Sichuan Roads and Bridges Group, a Chinese state-owned builder, to finance and lay a 220-kilometre water pipeline from Mzima Springs in Taita Taveta County to Mazeras in Kilifi County. The line would carry 105,000 cubic metres a day to Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Taita Taveta under a 30-year build-operate-transfer deal valued at KES 50.6 billion.

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