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RED SEA BRIDGE

Posted on 26 September 2008 by Railways Africa Editor

Within the next twenty years, Dubai-based Al Noor Holding Investment Company hopes to build a bridge across the Red Sea linking Africa with the Arabian Peninsula. Spanning 29km between Djibouti and Yemen, it would rate as the largest suspension structure in the world, running between two envisaged new cities, both named Al Noor City, or [...] [...more]

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150km/hr CONTAINER TRAINS FOR AFRICA

Posted on 15 December 2006 by Railways Africa Editor

Speaking at the inauguration of his second term in office, President Ismael Omer Guelle of Djibouti appealed for a 6 000km landbridge rail line linking his country’s Gulf of Tadjourah to Cameroon on the Gulf of Guinea. Estimated to cost $US6 billion, the line would run through the Sudan and the Central Africa Republic. Neighbouring [...] [...more]

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