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Tanzania signs Sh215 billion railway contract with Turkish firm

President Samia Suluhu Hassan. [Courtesy]

Tanzania yesterday signed a contract with Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi to build a 368 kilometre (km) section of standard gauge railway that is expected to cost $1.9 billion (about Sh214.7 billion) and will be funded by loans.

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