Promised new rail line in Zambia

http://www.zana.gov.zm/news/viewnews.cg ... 1136790385

Will it happen? Thousands of miles of new rail lines have been proposed for Africa. Will any of them be built? This line would open up the eastern provinces of Zambia. Where would the money come from?

Probably China which built the railway from Tanzania to Zambia in 1976.

sugartramp wrote:Probably China which built the railway from Tanzania to Zambia in 1976.

It was the Mao regime that built the Tazara railway for quite different reasons.

The new capitalist Chinese are now moving into Africa in a big way, on the sniff for the same minerals the Europeans wanted. Whether this eastern province line is of interest to the Chinese I don't know. They are probably interested in Zambia's copper now that copper prices are rising.