Tanzania-Zambia railway set to get $2.8m lifeline

Tanzania will pay six-billion shillings ($2.71-million) to bail out the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara), a railway firm that connects Africa's two biggest copper producers to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port, a company spokesman said. The loss-making railway line is a key route for copper exports through the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam from Zambia and Africa's biggest producer, the Democratic Republic of Congo.