Nairobi, Aug. 13 -- Kenya and Tanzania have renewed a drive to connect their standard gauge railway (SGR) projects with land-locked neighbours Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi amid pressure to diversify funding sources for the undertakings.

Last month, Kenya broke ground on extension of its railway line from Naivasha, six years after the project stalled, to Kisumu and the border town of Malaba, which would bring the project to the doorstep of Uganda.

At the end of July, Tanzania started the extension of its SGR project westwards from Capital Dodoma to Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

The country says it plans to include two new lines as part of the project including linking its port city of Tanga to Musoma on the shores of Lake Victo...