A new 800-km railway backed by a South Korean consortium will boost logging in the Republic of Congo, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) in its April 1 Tropical Timber ...

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The DRC launched an international call for interest to build a national rail-manufacturing plant, with bids due by March 9, 2026. The project includes three industrial sites—Kisangani, Kinshasa and ...

SHANGHAI, July 4 (Reuters) - China Railway Group <0390.HK> <601390.SS> said on Friday it will cut its capital commitment to a Congo mining project to $2.64 billion from $4.04 billion and lower its ...

A freight train in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has crashed in Katanga, killing at least 63 people and severely injuring 80. Katanga Province Interior Minister Jean Marie Dikanga Kazadi ...

China signed a $1.4 billion agreement with Zambia and Tanzania on Thursday to modernise the TAZARA railway linking landlocked Zambia to the Indian Ocean. The railway, financed by China in the 1970s to ...

As the Democratic Republic of Congo struggles to recover from a five-year civil war, one priority of international relief agencies is to restore a vital rail link in the central African nation's ...