In the search for efficient, sustainable, and integrated transport systems in Africa, East Africa may already hold the ...

Tanzania, Burundi, and the DRC are pushing ahead with an electrified railway that could reshape trade, travel, and regional ...

The financing is seen as a key step in advancing the buildout of a standard-gauge rail network in East Africa. Photo Courtesy of Tanzania Railway Corp. December 29, 2023 Construction of a 651-km ...

Ambitious plans are underway to build a high-speed rail network across Africa, connecting countries, regions and creating a transcontinental beltway that can transport people at up to 320 kilometers ...

“Every inhabitant of Thiès”, wrote a Senegalese novelist, Ousmane Sembène, in 1960, “depended on the railway.” Like many African cities, Thiès was a product of the continent’s first, colonial-era rail ...

Construction of Kenya’s Nairobi Expressway has been undertaken by the China Road and Bridge Corporation, one of many China-funded infrastructure projects in Africa. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP via Getty ...