Standard Gauge Railway electric train, a project worth nearly $2 billion, has been built by Turkish company Yapi Merkezi Train is part of a wider regional initiative to connect DR Congo and landlocked ...

Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project could be under threat, with Chief of Defence Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba proclaiming ...

Uganda opted Thursday for a Turkish company to build the Tanzania railway after years of inaction by China on the project. The Uganda government pitched Yapi Merkezi to build a 273-kilometer (170-mile ...

A Ugandan construction deal could provide the impetus needed to see China hand over extra financing to a stalled rail project in Kenya, according to observers. On Monday last week, Uganda awarded ...

Yapi Merkezi is an international privately-owned contracting company, specialising in rail engineering, design, manufacture and construction. The company also has experience in electrification, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What will 1,500 Turks be doing this year in the desolate space between Weldiya and Awash in Ethiopia? The ...

KAMPALA - Uganda's government and Turkish construction firm Yapi Merkezi signed a contract to build a 272 kilometre (169 miles) section of railway, in a bid to boost regional trade, a Ugandan official ...