‘Lapsset of 2063’: With love from Hobyo, through Ethiopia, to Matadi port in DRC

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A cartoon illustration. PHOTO | NMG

The African cross-border infrastructure affair is getting steamy again.

The latest, we learnt the other day that the US, European Union, the African Development (AfDB), and the Africa Finance Corporation launched a meaty $600 billion project to develop the Lobito Corridor to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Zambia–Lobito railway, which will together form a link across the continent.