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New Railway to Link Tanzania With Burundi

March 17, 2014
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Tanzania and Burundi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the development of a new railway network lining the two states.

The 195km line will connect Msongati in Burundi to Uvinza, Tanzania. 

In 2013 Tanzania signed another MOU with Burundi and Rwanda for a new rail network connecting Isaka in Tanzania with Kigali in Rwanda and Gitega in Burundi.

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The project includes 702 km of new construction of which 396 in Tanzania, 183 in Burundi and 123 in Rwanda.

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Meanwhile Zambia and Burundi are discussing the extension of the 1,992 km Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA), currently inking the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam with the town of Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia’s Central Province.

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