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It's the TAZARA Railway -- a 1,160-mile lifeline that allowed two newly independent counties to shuttle crucial mineral resources and passengers to the Indian Ocean, bypassing apartheid. Now, superpowers East and West are again vying for Africa's metals, this time to power the energy transition.
May 9, 2025, 12:29 AM
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