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Angola<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> (DRC)\u00a0have announced a joint project to rehabilitate the railway line linking the Congolese mining regions to the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week,\u00a0Luanda\u00a0and\u00a0Kinshasa\u00a0granted a group of investors a\u00a030-year concession to operate the line linking the Angolan port of Lobito to Kolwezi, in the heart of the DRC’s mineral-producing region.<\/p>\n

The\u00a01,700\u00a0km railway line was built\u00a0100\u00a0years ago by British investors.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0$555\u00a0million project, partly finance by the\u00a0US, is expected to develop exports of copper ore and other products, boost regional trade and strengthen\u00a0Angola’s\u00a0ties with Western countries.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0DRC\u00a0is the world’s leading producer of cobalt and\u00a0Africa’s\u00a0leading producer of copper, two minerals used in the manufacture of solar panels and electric cars.<\/p>\n

According to the Angolan operator,\u00a0Vecturis, work should start within the next\u00a0three\u00a0months.<\/p>\n

The consortium, which includes commodities trader\u00a0Trafigura\u00a0and Portuguese construction company\u00a0Mota-Engil, hopes to reduce the journey time between the\u00a0DRC\u00a0and\u00a0Lobito\u00a0to less than\u00a036\u00a0hours, with at least six trains a day over the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angola\u00a0and the\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)\u00a0have announced a joint project to rehabilitate the railway line linking the Congolese mining regions to the Atlantic Ocean. Earlier this week,\u00a0Luanda\u00a0and\u00a0Kinshasa\u00a0granted a group of investors a\u00a030-year concession to operate the line linking the Angolan port of Lobito to Kolwezi, in the heart of the DRC’s mineral-producing region. The\u00a01,700\u00a0km railway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Africa News","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[275,72,1259],"class_list":["post-8667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-angola","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-port-of-lobito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}