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Private investors to run Tazara

A passenger train run by the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority at the Dar es Salaam station. The train runs between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri-Mposhi in Zambia. FILE PHOTO | NATION

By  BEATRICE MATERU

Tanzania and Zambia are planning a law review to accommodate private investors in the running of their joint railway company, Tazara.

Tazara, which runs from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri-Mposhi in Zambia, was built in the 1970s with Chinese aid.

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