ANGOLA’s Ambassador to Tanzania Sandro de Oliveira at a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of Angola’s independence from Portugal shared plans to build a trans-African railway between the ports of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in the east of the African continent and Lobito on its west coast in Angola.
The ambassador noted that the rail corridor could connect Angola and Tanzania through Zambia, thereby ensuring the transit of goods from the markets of America, Asia and Europe.
As part of the proposed project, a 1067 mm gauge railway from Lobitu to the border with Zambia may be built at the initial stage, followed by its further extension to the city of Kapiri Mposhi in the central province of Zambia. In turn, Kapiri-Mposhi is the western terminus of the TAZARA railway line between Zambia and Tanzania with a length of 1860 km.
Currently, the Angolan economy is mainly dependent on exports,
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