Last month, Burundi and Tanzania signed an agreement with two Chinese state-owned companies to construct a new railway to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese rail contractors are consolidating their foothold in East Africa as part of a twin effort to improve the region's ...

“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 ...

Two years after the handover to local control, the China-built railway is not done transforming the region.

LOBITO, Angola -- President Joe Biden pledged another $600 million Wednesday for an ambitious multicountry rail project in Africa as one of the final foreign policy moves of his administration, and ...

President Joe Biden, known for his long-standing affection for trains, used the final day of his visit to Angola to spotlight the region's U.S.-backed rail project. The project––which has received ...

Africa is on the brink of a transportation revolution as it embarks on an ambitious plan to overhaul its rail infrastructure, with a high-speed rail network that could reshape the continent’s ...

LUANDA, Angola — Even in the waning days of his presidency and thousands of miles from home, U.S. President Joe Biden is finding ways to celebrate trains. Biden used the third and final day of his ...

CAIRO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital said on Sunday it had completed a $70 million capital increase for its Africa Railways investment vehicle. Citadel, with $8.7 ...