KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-SGR-5TH ANNIVERSARY

KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-SGR-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220708) -- NAIROBI, July 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Female train driver Concilia (C), Alice (L) and Chinese instructor Tu Zhuxin gesture before the operation of the standard gauge railway (SGR) in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 31, 2017. The SGR passenger train has moved some 7.78 million passengers between the capital, Nairobi and Mombasa since its inception in June 2017, a national statistics agency said in a report released on July 6, 2022. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)

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