Nairobi, May 4 -- Four East African Community member states this week joined the Kenya and Uganda joint project to develop a modern railway on the Northern Corridor.

But lack of funds continues to haunt the joint standard gauge railway (SGR), which terminated in Naivasha, in Kenya's Central Rift region.

On Friday, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan joined SGR Cluster Joint Ministerial Committee and committed to engage development partners in seeking funding for the of the railway to ease movement of goods on the Northern Corridor.

During the meeting in Mombasa, the ministers in charge of infrastructure acknowledged the fundraising challenges the project has faced in the past five years.

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