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Repairs underway on vital rail line

    NAIROBI

    The railway line between the capital Brazzaville and the southern port city of Pointe-Noire should be fully operational again by the end of April, news agencies reported. Reuters quoted a spokesman for France’s state railway company SNCF as saying on 10 March that the Congolese government had paid SNCF part of the money due for repairs to the line, which was damaged in the country’s civil war starting in late 1998. The rail line remained closed for most of 1999. Partial services resumed in January and SNCF engineers were now completing repairs and restoring five bridges destroyed by the rebels, it said.

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