Kenyans sing and dance beside one of the first batch of locomotives for the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Mombasa, Kenya. The SGR passenger train has moved some 7.78 million passengers since its inception in June 2017.
Kenya’s feat on track
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