Angola Rail Line Offers Clues to Trump’s Africa Policy
April 5th, 2025
Via New York Times, an article on the $4 billion Lobito Corridor project which was the Biden administration’s signature initiative in Africa. Early signs are that the Trump team supports it, too, for mineral access if nothing else. An 800-mile rail corridor stretching from Angola’s northern border to the Atlantic Ocean was former President Joseph […]
Read more »Angola Pushes Ahead With Key Corridor
March 15th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at the Lobito Corridor project, in light of the Trump Administration’s dissolution of USAID: Despite US funding uncertainty, officials say the strategic rail and road project from DRC to Angola’s Atlantic coast will forge ahead. Angola insists its flagship Lobito Corridor project will move forward regardless of concerns over […]
Read more »China, America, and the Great Railway Race in Africa
March 7th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how China and the United States are engaged in a battle for access, resources, and influence along railways in Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the DRC, echoing trends from the colonial era. The Mukuba Express had been motionless for eight hours, stopped in a small village about 50 miles west […]
Read more »Trump Aid Freeze Risks $1 Billion African Minerals Project
February 18th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on how an expansion of the US’s biggest strategic critical-minerals project in Africa is at risk: A billion-dollar expansion of the biggest US strategic critical-minerals project in Africa faces delays because of the Trump administration’s sweeping foreign-aid freeze, providing a potential opening for rivals like China. The Lobito corridor railway project […]
Read more »Angola Plans to Sell Stakes in Biggest Telecom Company, Banks This Year
January 24th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on Angola’s plans to sell stakes in several large companies in 2025: Minister Massano says sales are part of privatization program Some asset sales will be carried out through the stock market Angola plans to sell stakes in its biggest telecommunications company, Unitel SA, and two lenders in the coming months to attract […]
Read more »PGI’s Lobito Corridor Rail Network to Unlock African Copper Belt
January 17th, 2025
Via Fast Markets, an article on how Africa’s first transcontinental rail network, known as the Lobito Corridor, which aims to eventually connect almost the entire regional copper-cobalt belt with additional links across sub-Saharan Africa, is on track to break ground early in 2026: The project will link Angola and Zambia by rail for the first […]
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