On Wednesday, Dec. 4, President Joe Biden announced $600 million in new funding to support the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor’s rail infrastructure. The Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor is a series of ...

Before the concession was awarded the contract to manage the Lobito railway in July, the link with nearly 1,300 km (807.78 miles) of track in Angola used to transport freight was managed by the ...

The United States remains committed to funding the Lobito rail corridor, a project to help transport critical minerals from the central African copperbelt to the West, despite President Donald ...

The 1,344-km Benguela Railway stretches from Angola’s port city of Lobito, eastward through destinations such as Luena, before reaching the city of Luau, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo.

That’s about 30 days faster than a road journey, according to Francisco Franca, the CEO of Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR), a consortium of firms that took over operations of the railway in ...

He will be there to promote the Lobito Corridor, an 800-mile railway project funded in part by the United States that is meant to be his signature initiative on the continent and an answer to ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – From the Port of Lobito in Angola, along Africa’s Atlantic coast, runs a 1,300km (800-mile) stretch of railway that passes through neighbouring Zambia ...

In Lobito, the U.S. works mostly with European partners. In Luzon, the U.S. is teaming up with Japan to secure critical industries such as semiconductors.

Lobito-Bound follows explorer Dwayne Fields on an adventure through Tanzania, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic.

Trump's spending cuts had raised concerns for projects such as Lobito which has plans for Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. But the U.S. Ambassador to Angola, James Story, sought to ...

“Lobito Corridor is not just a railway line, but is the economic development along the corridor,” said Franca, the CEO of LAR.