Lobito - Mwinilunga - Chingola Railway? - Zambian Copperbelt (sitios de interés)

Photo Lusaka Times 

 

Government is setting up a railway line from neighboring Angola via Mwinilunga district to Chingola on the Copperbelt Province. North-western Province Minister Kenneth Chipungu who confirmed the development in Solwezi today said the move seeks to ease the pressure on the road network.Mr. Chipungu observed that the roads were being damaged due to heavy equipment ferried by trucks. The minister said the railway will facilitate the transportation of copper by rail to Lobito bay in Angola. He said government through the Ministry of Communications and Transport is negotiating with a possible financier of the project.

 

 

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History: The Jews of Zambia

(The Mwinilunga Plan 1938)