{"id":39205,"date":"2026-07-09T17:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39205"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:34:56","slug":"afdb-lends-morocco-234m-for-rail-expansion-project","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/afdb-lends-morocco-234m-for-rail-expansion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"AfDB lends Morocco $234m for rail expansion project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday it had \u200bapproved a loan of 205 \u200cmillion Euros ($234 million) to help Morocco extend its high-speed rail network and \u200bupgrade rail infrastructure along one \u200bof the country&#8217;s busiest transport \u2060corridors.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The loan is aimed at \u200bboosting capacity and operational performance along \u200bthe Kenitra-Marrakech railway corridor, which carries a large share of Morocco&#8217;s passenger and \u200bfreight traffic, the bank said \u200bin a statement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Morocco plans to invest $10 billion to expand \u200cits \u2060intercity and urban rail networks, including the construction of a high-speed line to Marrakech, ahead of \u200bthe 2030 \u200bFIFA \u2060World Cup, which it will co-host with Spain \u200band Portugal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The new high-speed line \u200bwill \u2060start from Kenitra on the Atlantic coast and run 430 km (267 \u2060miles) \u200bsouth to Marrakech, \u200bserving Rabat and Casablanca along the way.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29188,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-39205","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Morocco plans to invest $10 billion to expand \u200cits \u2060intercity and urban rail networks.","published_date":"","news_description":"Morocco plans to invest $10 billion to expand \u200cits \u2060intercity and urban rail networks.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39208,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39205\/revisions\/39208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}