China signs deal to revamp decades-old Southern African railway
China signed an agreement Wednesday to revamp a railway that will help landlocked Zambia, Africa’s second-largest copper producer, export the metal through Tanzania. The heads of state of the three nations oversaw the ceremony at the Forum on China Africa-Cooperation, kicking off the biggest upgrade of the so-called Tazara railway since Mao Zedong agreed to help build it in the 1970s.