China is putting $1 billion in the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (Tazara), a major corridor linking Tanzania’s commercial capital and main port of Dar es Salaam and Zambia’s Copperbelt.
Beijing sees Tazara as crucial in facilitating mineral exports from Zambia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the race for critical metals in the production of electric vehicle batteries and fuelling the 4th Industrial Revolution technologies heats up between China, the US and the European Union.
