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A Sh45.7 million US$593,450) feasibility study on a proposed railway line to link the Great Lakes states could soon be commissioned.
A yet-to-be identified firm of consultants will undertake the study to establish the project's economic viability.
The target countries include Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, which are all landlocked.
The proposed line will connect the three countries with East and Southern Africa countries.
A report presented to the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) meeting in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, was based on information from Comesa and extracts from discussions with officials of Kenya Railways Corporation. This another rather grandiose sounding project like a similar proposal for Sudan. But if they are both built there is going to be a problem with East Africa's metre gauge and the other countries' Cape Gauge lines. As Cape Gauge is the predominant gauge in southern Africa that ought to prevail.
Of course, war needs to end first.
A Sh45.7 million US$593,450) feasibility study on a proposed railway line to link the Great Lakes states could soon be commissioned.
A yet-to-be identified firm of consultants will undertake the study to establish the project's economic viability.
The target countries include Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, which are all landlocked.
The proposed line will connect the three countries with East and Southern Africa countries.
A report presented to the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) meeting in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, was based on information from Comesa and extracts from discussions with officials of Kenya Railways Corporation. This another rather grandiose sounding project like a similar proposal for Sudan. But if they are both built there is going to be a problem with East Africa's metre gauge and the other countries' Cape Gauge lines. As Cape Gauge is the predominant gauge in southern Africa that ought to prevail.
Of course, war needs to end first.