Kenya took on huge debt to buy a modern railway from Beijing that it hopes will boost its economy ... despite the controversy it has attracted
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The country was Kenya. The railway became known as the Lunatic Express. Now 116 years later, another railway line has been built almost parallel to those same tracks in a bid to transform this part of Africa, but this time by a different world power: China. Whether this railway will earn as colorful a moniker as that of the British endeavor remains to be seen.
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