Tanzania launches yet another major railway plan as deal is signed with Burundi.
Wolfgang H Thome's Blog 22:36 14-Mar-14
The so called 'Coalition of the Willing' will be watching with hawks'
eyes from the sidelines as Tanzania and Burundi yesterday reportedly
signed a Memorandum of Understanding, under which a direct rail link
will be constructed to connect Tanzania's central rail line to
Bujumbura.
Prior to the diplomatic spat between Tanzania and Rwanda, caused by
flippant remarks made by President Kikwete that Rwanda should sit down
with the FDLR killer militias and negotiate a peace deal - impossible
considering that the FDLR is sworn to destroy the new Rwanda and bring
back the policies of genocide - had Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi been
on the same wavelength to expand a railway line from Tanzania's Isaka
to Kigali and on to Bujumbura. That well intentioned project, even
though funding had already been lined up, has gone silent when in a
new spirit of active and determined cooperation Kenya, Uganda and
Rwanda signed various agreements to build a standard gauge railway
from the port of Mombasa via Nairobi to Uganda's capital of Kampala
and on to Rwanda's capital of Kigali.
It however appears that this latest deal of the two East African
Community member states, which are now often called the 'Coalition of
the Unwilling' was launched to counter the railway plans of the other
three member states, in either a snub or else serving notice that the
two can go it alone should need arise.
The new proposed railway line, which reportedly is due to cost over a
trillion Tanzania Shillings, will connect Tanzania's Uvinza with
Burundi's Msongati and it is further understood that the option to
expand the new line into the Congo DR has been left open, as Tanzania
is playing her political cards of forming her own transport corridor.
This is seen to be done with the intent to compete with the northern
transport axis from Kenya via Uganda and beyond, which includes also
options to add on South Sudan, Eastern Congo and of course Rwanda,
which is part and parcel of the standard gauge railway project.
With the flurry of railway projects - a similar deal Tanzania signed
to link the proposed new port near Tanga with a railway line to an
equally new port in Musoma / Lake Victoria and then connect by rail
ferry to Uganda has also gone silent since the deck of cards in East
Africa were reshuffled last year - it is now the question which ones
will find willing financiers as, should all of them be built, the
financial returns in the near and medium future, would be nowhere near
to justify the expense, so here, as everywhere in East Africa, it is
wait and see who and which project will in the end carry the day.
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