Huambo was a key station on the Benguela Railway route It was in 1902 that a Scot, Sir Robert Williams, located vast copper deposits in Katanga Province (now incorporated in the Democratic Republic of ...

One particularly important rail route is the Benguela railway, which was a transport artery for much of southern and central Africa, connecting the Angolan ports with the rich farmlands of the ...

For decades, the east-west, 1,344-kilometer-long Benguela Railway spanning Angola provided the shortest way to transport the Congo’s mineral riches to Europe and was the key leg of Africa’s ...

Photo taken on Oct. 3, 2019 shows a large maintenance machine at the Lobito station of the Benguela Railway in Lobito, Angola. The Benguela Railway, which was built by the China Railway 20 Bureau ...

That includes loans to refurbish the 100-year-old Benguela Railway in Angola which was badly damaged during a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002. China has also invested heavily in the DRC ...

is working to rebuild and revive the Benguela railway line that the countries used to export materials and minerals even before independence. The project will be financed by $250 million supplied ...