Between 2006 and 2017, Kenya repaid its large loans from China to build a railway and other infrastructure, allowing Kenya to avoid giving China any control over Kenyan assets.
In November 2017, the Kenyan Auditor warned that the terms of SGR financing were written cryptically and designed to favor the China Exim Bank and said that if the Kenya Railways Corporation defaults in its obligations, the China Exim Bank would become a principle over some Kenyan assets, including the Mombasa port. 
