A VIABILITY study into a proposed $US 435 million Great Lakes Railway in central Africa was approved last month at a top-level meeting of African transport ministers and private sector representatives in Lusaka, Zambia.
The planned route extends westward from the existing Kampala-Kasese line in Uganda to the northern shore of Lake Edward. To the south, it will link Edward and Kivu lakes. At Kamanyala, below Bukavu on Lake Kivu, the line will connect with the Kivu section of the ...