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China and Zambia launched Thursday a $1.4 billion project to modernise a railway line that will transport minerals from the copper-rich southern African country to Indian Ocean ports for export. <\/p>\n
The upgrade comes as the United States and other partners back a separate westward rail corridor linking Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Atlantic Ocean… Lusaka (AFP) Nov 20, 2025 China and Zambia launched Thursday a $1.4 billion project to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway.jpg",600,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway-300x250.jpg",300,250,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway.jpg",600,500,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway.jpg",600,500,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway.jpg",600,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway.jpg",600,500,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway.jpg",600,500,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway.jpg",600,500,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/195115-china-zambia-kick-start-revamp-of-mineral-railway-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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