Editor,

RE: "Many corridors good for East Africa” (The New Times, May 31).

There is no rocket science about it at all, for East Africa’s landlocked countries, the more, efficient and reliable access to the sea available to them the better. But the positive effects go far beyond such a consideration.

As Mr Rwagatare notes, a more networked Greater East African region, extending to Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and through Tanzania to the SADC rail network, the closer the dream of an integrated African economy will become reality.

Standard-gauge railways on the Northern and Central Corridors should not be seen in zero-sum terms; they are in fact synergetic. All that is required to unlock their full beneficial outcomes is some political goodwill as well as some creative thinking from all concerned.

Neither Kenya’s nor Tanzania’s gain is a loss for the other; in fact a Tanzania and Kenya that are prospering are good for each other in various ways, as they are also great for the rest of the sub-region.

Mwene Kalinda