There has been a lot of talk lately about trains in southern Africa. Driven in part by the race for critical minerals, the United States and China are seemingly backing rival railroads to secure ...

2002-02-17 04:00:00 PDT Douala, Cameroon-- The strangers from the south set up shop two years ago in this port city of rusting shacks and neglected buildings, and soon thousands of sleek cell phones ...

Thousands of rail cars in South Africa will soon be equipped with passive UHF RFID tags, allowing them to be more effectively tracked, maintained and inventoried. Spoornet, a South African provider of ...

Africa’s past is the mildewed train station in central Addis Ababa, where locomotives sit gutted and rusted tracks vanish in the grass. The line was once the greatest in Africa; built by France in the ...