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Rail is the key to making Africa the world’s largest free-trade area

Posted: 02 Jun 2021, 13:30
by John Ashworth
Rail is the key to making Africa the world’s largest free-trade area
Intra-Africa travel by Africans is small in comparison to international travel... All modes of transport are important in connecting the continent with its people. However, the fastest and most effective enabler of the movement of goods and people in Africa is rail. Africa’s rail networks are still connected to few countries but they are an existing infrastructure immediately available for fostering goods exchanges and supporting people movement...