Namibia: Calls for Seamless Africa Railway Line

Experts say Africa needs harmonised railway standards and seamlessly connected railway lines throughout the continent.

This is in addition to pushing for the standard railway gauge from Walvis Bay to Botswana and through to Johannesburg, South Africa. This is to allow the continent to have integrated and cross border railway networks.

African Union Commission (AUC) transport and mobility division head Eric Ntagengerwa says, for example, a metre-gauge railway line in southern Africa, connecting…