The East African Community (EAC) plans to significantly modernise its ailing railway systems as it looks for massive returns from the envisaged greater free trade area of eastern and southern Africa. According to President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, countries of eastern and southern Africa are resolved to create a huge free trade area spanning from Egypt to South Africa.. But without a reliable and efficient railway network, he said, their ambition would be unattainable...

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