The line will compete with another that the US and EU are backing and connects the same copper-rich region to an Atlantic port on Africa’s west coast, known as the Lobito corridor. (Photo: Bloomberg) Show Quick Read Summary is AI Generated. Newsroom Reviewed

China signed a deal with Zambia and Tanzania for the revitalization of a railway connecting the central African copperbelt with an Indian Ocean port.

The revamp of the line — which Mao Zedong’s China financed and helped build in the 1970s — will cost about $1.4 billion, Zambia’s transport ministry said in a statement announcing the signing on Monday.

The Tanzania Zambia Railway, or Tazara, runs for 1,860 kilometers (1,160 miles) and had fallen into disrepair, operating at a fraction of its original capacity. Its upgrade comes a

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