President Filipe Nyusi declared on 3 November that the railway from Cuamba to Lichinga, the two main urban centres in the northernmost province of Niassa, will raise the socio-economic development of that province, and of the whole northern region of the country.
He was speaking at Lichinga station, at the ceremony to re-inaugurate the line. The 262 km long line is essentially a spur off the northern rail corridor that runs from the port of Nacala to Entre-Lagos on the border with Malawi.
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