The East African nation of Tanzania has signed a contract with two Chinese firms for the design and construction of a 341-kilometer single-track electrified standard gauge railway line. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit held in Kazakh capital Astana BEIJING (Reuters) -China, Tanzania and Zambia signed an ...

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan launched the nation’s first modern railway Thursday, which was built by Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi. Built at a cost of $3.1 billion, the 541-kilometer (336-mile) ...

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Nairobi — TANZANIA IS going ahead with privatisation of the Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) without Uganda and Kenya despite earlier plans to private the three East Africa railway firms as a ...

China, Zambia, and Tanzania signed a landmark $1.4 billion agreement on Thursday to revive the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) railway line. The 1,860-kilometer (1,155-mile) stretch between ...

Tanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway is quietly reshaping African tourism by turning the country into a regional gateway. As rail lines extend from the Indian Ocean toward the Great Lakes and Central ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A train launched to operate on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line constructed by the ...

Just over a decade ago as he appeared on a panel at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was asked by journalist Robyn Curnow about the ...