Hundreds took part in a run on Monday in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at promoting China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Officials from the Chinese embassy in Kenya also joined the event that took place at the Karura Forest.
The global running event has already been held in 22 out of the 44 markets across the development initiative, which intends to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa through the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road.
Standard Chartered Bank, the organizer behind this relay, has pledged to facilitate additional financing of at least $20 billion by 2020 for the Belt and Road Initiative.
The Belt and Road Initiative aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fibre optic lines.
In East Africa, the initiative is related to the Chinese-funded 480-km Standard Gauge Railway from the Kenya port city of Mombasa to the capital of Nairobi and is expected to extend to the neighboring Uganda.
Another combination of infrastructure projects including roads, railway, new port and oil refinery to connect the Indian Ocean town of Lamu in Kenya to Ethiopia and South Sudan are being constructed.
