{"id":49502,"date":"2026-10-30T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49502"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:28:42","slug":"tanzania-angola-plan-railway-link-via-zambia-drc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-angola-plan-railway-link-via-zambia-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania, Angola plan railway link via Zambia, DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan says Tanzania and Angola have agreed to connect their Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean transport corridors with \u200ba railway link via Zambia and the Democratic Republic \u200cof Congo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Benguela railway in Angola will join the Tanzania-Zambia Railway line to Tanzania&#8217;s port of Dar es \u200bSalaam, linking the Lobito corridor on the Atlantic coast with \u200bthe central corridor on the Indian Ocean coast.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">East African governments have been offered a 30% stake, and Rwanda and Kenya have so far committed to buying shares.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13975,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49502","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Tanzania, Angola have agreed to connect their Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean transport","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49502","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49504,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49502\/revisions\/49504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}