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Tazara Railway
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Tazara Railway

The Tanzania–Zambia Railway Authority railway line, opened in 1975 for the export of copper from Zambia. It links Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to Lusaka in Zambia, via the town of Kapiri Mposhi in the Zambian copperbelt. From Lusaka there are connections to Livingstone in southern Zambia and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.
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6) One of the highest-profile projects in Africa undertaken by China was the construction of the 1,860-kilometre Tanzam Railway between 1970 and 1975.
Sino-African relations: historical development and long-term ... by Tu, Jianjun / China: An International Journal
at 38 (observing that the TanZam loan was "China's biggest aid commitment to date" and "the largest single offer of Communist economic assistance ever made").
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