{"id":277996,"date":"2019-06-04T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEHa-fi6t98aLiY5W8c6HaysqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowi4-MATDXsRUwhP2ZAg?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:18","slug":"quartz-said-ethiopia-and-kenya-were-struggling-under-chinese-built-railway-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277996","title":{"rendered":"Quartz said Ethiopia and Kenya were struggling under Chinese-built railway debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Quartz Africa wrote that Ethiopia and Kenya were both wrestling with debt from Chinese-financed standard-gauge railways, even after Beijing offered Ethiopia fresh concessions around the Belt and Road Forum.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Quartz said Ethiopia and Kenya were struggling under Chinese-built railway debt\" \/>\n<p>Ethiopia had already renegotiated railway loan terms in 2018 and later received cancellation of some interest-free loans through the end of 2018, which showed both the pain of mega-project borrowing and the room China sometimes left to restructure.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as debt and FDI archive, the Quartz analysis dates how East Africa\u2019s flagship Chinese rail projects looked financially strained by mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1634659\/ethiopia-kenya-struggle-with-chinese-debt-over-sgr-railways\">Quartz Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and Kenya are struggling to manage debt for their Chinese-built railways&nbsp;&nbsp;QuartzIn the wake of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing six weeks ago, Ethiopia gained another Chinese debt-concession. China\u2019s second-largest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ajO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755037,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277996\/revisions\/755037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}