Tanzania government says has secured funding for SGR section to Burundi

Dar es Salaam. The government says it has secured funding for the construction of a section of the standard gauge railways (SGR), linking Tanzania with Burundi.

The Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) is overseeing the construction of a 2,561-kilometre line that will link the Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam to Mwanza on Lake Victoria, with eventual spurs to Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), Rwanda and Uganda.