Sudan, Chad to sign US$2b pact to build railway
08 August, 2011
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- A US$2 billion tri-partite agreement will be signed soon to implement projects linking Sudan and Chad, via a railroad that would expand up to Douala in Cameroon, a Sudanese ruling party member announced on Friday.
Hassan Bargo, the ruling party official responsible for the township between Sudan and Chad, said the two countries would soon send a delegation to China, where they would sign the contract with the Chinese Import and Export Bank, which will provide the funds.
He said the money would be used to construct a railway line that extends from Nyala in Sudan's western Darfur region up to Ndjamena (Chad), to Abahe-Adre up to Nyala in the east and will go from Ndjamena up to Douala in Cameroon.
There is a rail road linking Nyala to Port Sudan on the Red Sea in Eastern Sudan region. With this link, the landlocked Chad will be directly linked to the Red Sea with a train that runs a 120 kms an hour, transporting commodities.
The Sudanese official said the projects would start in October this year.
The official told the state-run Sudanese news agency, SUNA, that arrangements for the deal were made during a recent visit by the Sudanese presidential adviser, Dr Mustafa Osman Ismail, to Chad where he met senior officials to discuss the issue.
Sudan and Chad have agreed to stop backing rebel elements against each other, and move to full economic and security cooperation.
In a show of the new relations, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flew to Ndjamena Sunday for the inauguration of Chadian President Idriss Deby.
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