Private South African freight-rail operator Traxtion will invest 3.4 billion rand ($199 million) in locomotives and wagons, almost doubling its fleet as the country’s more than century-old state rail ...

Traxtion said on Tuesday it would invest 3.4 billion rand ($199 million) in new locomotives and wagons as the freight company prepares to run trains on South Africa's mainlines for the first time ...

Chinese rail contractors are consolidating their foothold in East Africa as part of a twin effort to improve the region's connectivity and tap into its abundant reserves of strategic minerals. Last ...

“Every inhabitant of Thiès”, wrote a Senegalese novelist, Ousmane Sembène, in 1960, “depended on the railway.” Like many African cities, Thiès was a product of the continent’s first, colonial-era rail ...

LUANDA, Angola — President Biden on his visit to sub-Saharan Africa pledged another $600 million for a cross-continent rail corridor project Wednesday, telling regional leaders that “Africa has been ...

LUANDA, Angola — President Joe Biden on his visit to sub-Saharan Africa pledged another $600 million for a cross-continent rail corridor project Wednesday, telling regional leaders that “Africa has ...

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s government and the business community set a target of boosting the economic growth rate by as much as six percentage points by fixing the country’s collapsing ports and ...

The United States' growing race to secure alternative sources of critical minerals has placed Liberia's Yekepa-Buchanan railway at the center of a widening geopolitical map -- one that stretches from ...

Madrid to Casablanca in five hours and change, without stepping foot in an airport. That's the pitch behind renewed efforts to build a rail link between Southern Europe and North Africa — all in time ...

June 22 (Reuters) - A derailed train plunged into a ravine in Congo Republic, killing around 50 passengers, a national rail company source in the oil-producing Central African state said on Tuesday.