TAZARA Railway

One of your ambitions is to go on a railway journey for a number of days on a particular railway line in Africa that starts in Tanzania and ends in Zambia.

It's about to be upgraded, but you wanna go on the original line, and that line is called the TAZARA line.

And if I'm not mistaken, it actually goes through, slowly, a couple of the major, major safaris for which Tanzania is as famous as it is for Kilimanjaro.

Anybody listening out there who has tickets to go on the TAZARA Railway, reach out to us.

[laughs] Please.

Really, really, really.

It is something that I think both of us would find to be an incredible, almost life-changing experience for a variety of reasons, which we'll go into in a subsequent podcast on the TAZARA Railway.

We were also honored to have the opportunity to sit down with Tanzania's Ambassador to Israel, Alex Gabriel Kallua, to find out all about his country, its connection to Israel, and of course, the tourism opportunities that his country affords.

So the specific ticket value of the Lobito investment by the U.S. was estimated to be about $753 million U.S. A recent drawdown on that, Stephen, which is highlighted in terms of news, there's been $300 million U.S., and this is because america is really intensifying with regards to investing in the infrastructure why because obviously from a drc perspective they're wanting to extract more copper and cobalt which are quite key significant infrastructure requirements for the big tech companies that they've got in america So that's quite a significant place.

So, I mean, we've always known about Lobito and it's competing with the Tazara Railway, which is the Chinese counter offer where they are drawing from the DRC, but obviously going to Tanzania and going to the Indian Ocean.

The Lobito terminates at Lobito, which is in Angola.

But again, we continue to monitor that, Stephen, because this is quite a significant investment and a big player with regards to infrastructure development in Africa linked to infrastructure for technology.

So that's quite a significant play.

So I mean, we've always known about Lobito, and it's competing with the TAZARA Railway, which is the Chinese counteroffer, where they are, they are, they are drawing from the DRC, but obviously going to Tanzania and going to the Indian Ocean.

Uh, the Lobito terminates at Lobito, which is in Angola.

But again, we continue to monitor that, Stephen, because obviously it's quite a significant investment and a big player with regards to infrastructure development in Africa linked to, uh, infrastructure for technology.