by Stanley Carlos Okombo @StanleyOkombo Tanzania and Zambia have agreed to inject $80 million into their loss-making railway company, which is suffering from decades of under-investment. The governments have agreed to invest the money in the Tanzania–Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) over the next 12 months, starting with an immediate injection of $9.2 million to offset salary arrears and support operations. The amount agreed upon is slightly more than a third of the $211 million Tazara needs over five years, with the balance expected to be raised from private sources. With interest-free loans worth yuan 2,543 billion ($412 million) from China since its inception in 1968, Tazara is the Eastern economic giant’s largest single foreign aid project in Africa. The 1,860 kilometre line was built to transport copper from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Dar es Salaam, from where it was shipped to China. The line also handles imported crude for ...