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Government plans cost-saving rail route to Tanzania

    NAIROBI

    The Rwandan government is to set up a 480 km railway link between Kigali and Isaka in northern Tanzania in order to reduce the cost of commodity imports, according to Rwandan Transport Minister Vincent Biruta, quoted by the Rwandan News Agency on Monday. The railway line has been planned to ease the burden to the Rwandan economy of transporting goods by road from Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, Biruta said. In a related development, the Tanzanian government has agreed to remove a tax imposed earlier this year on goods, especially sugar, in transit through the country to Rwanda, Biruta told RNA.

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