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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Tanzania has awarded contracts to build new railway lines worth about $9 billion (Sh882b) to Chinese firms, its transport minister said, expanding Beijing's presence in East Africa's second-biggest economy.
Transport Minister Samuel Sitta told parliament on Saturday a Chinese consortium had been awarded a contract to build a 2,561 km (1,536 miles) standard gauge railway connecting Dar es Salaam port to land-locked neighbours at a cost of $7.6 billion.
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