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Uganda’s Railway Rollercoaster: Muhoozi Revives Turkish Contractor Just Months After Axing Them

In a move that has left infrastructure watchers rubbing their eyes, Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has thrown his public weight behind Turkish construction giant Yapi Merkezi to build the Malaba–Kampala Standard Gauge Railway, the very company he said the government had dumped just months ago. No new terms, no revised timetable, just a post on X and an instruction to get on with it. Uganda’s billion-euro railway saga takes another sharp turn.