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Projects like LAPSSET are directly against US interests and US has the power and experience to make it fail.
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LAPPSET took too long before implementation, Ethiopia moved on and are currently using a port in Somaliland.
The question is, which is more pragmatic, Somaliland ports give Ethiopia direct access to red sea and Indian Ocean and its closer to Northern Ethiopia which has more infrastructure.
Compare that to the port of Lamu, Northern Kenya remains to be a frontier same with Southern Ethiopia.
Original Lapsset was designed by a Netherlands company in the 1970s I’m sure it took care of European and american interests.
Later on after, Toyota corporation was very interested in the PPP aspects of the project a confirmation that Japan and Allies are very much interested.
For those of you who read a lot, Kuwait has been invested the longest in the Sudan breakup to form south Sudan, she also has always given GoK offers to build various infrastructure items from south Sudan to Mombasa or Lamu, a confirmation of the European and american interests plus allied Arab states.
The thing about Lapsset is the geopolitical implications, I tend to concluded the brains behind it pushed for the port first, then let other countries respond, then start building the roads, and when an equilibrium is likely, finalize agreements with Ethiopia, south Sudan etc.
It’s important to also view the project in relation to Kenya south Sudan boundary negotiations(I think that’s why Kenya is pushing to complete the about 11km of kitale lodwar road and not the isolo maral turkana lapsset road until the border has been finalized. It will also outdo the Uganda to Sudan route and I think we are waiting for Museveni to recoup his investment or retire) and somalia revival.
Further back in time, the British were ready to surrender NFD to Somalia but it took the US and Russia back channel efforts for them to abandon that idea. Search on the internet and read about that . I guess the Russians view it in terms of access to Central Africa while the Americans view it in terms of neutralizing port Sudan.
The project will materialize in the end. Kenyans basic interest is to simply bring marginalized areas under state control (you can read about how roads extend and exert governments) while connecting to regional countries is a secondary benefit and a matter of interest for global powers
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Thanks elder. It’s nice to see there’s people interested in actual politics, not that tugege croaking.
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I once told a friend of mine that USA is unable to control it’s internal black population due to the simple fear that at some point in the future, it will have to reckon with it’s past in Africa much like the Europeans did.
We’re the oldest continent on the planet, we can wait.
I mean, even the Romans were running around here claiming to be masters of the universe at some point. Lol.
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