Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan says Tanzania and Angola have agreed to connect their Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean transport corridors with a railway link via Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Benguela railway in Angola will join the Tanzania-Zambia Railway line to Tanzania’s port of Dar es Salaam, linking the Lobito corridor on the Atlantic coast with the central corridor on the Indian Ocean coast.
Hassan says Angola has also invited Tanzania to invest in an oil refinery, with state energy firm Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation assessing the viability of a partnership in the Lobito oil refinery project.
Meanwhile, Tanzania has not said whether it will take up an equity stake in a refinery being built in Kenya by Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote.
East African governments have been offered a 30% stake, and Rwanda and Kenya have so far committed to buying shares.
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