Magufuli Launches Modern Railway Project in Tanzania

The President has said the project will create 600,000 employment opportunities, stimulate trade with neighbours, improve tourism and other economic sectors.

President John Magufuli (in light blue suit) and other government officials get briefing from Rail Assets Holding Company Limited (RAHCO) Acting Managing Director Masanja Kadogosa on the 300-kilometre Dar es Salaam-Morogoro Standard Gauge Railway line after the head of state laid the foundation stone at Pugu Station on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam city.

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