Plans to complete the link bridge between Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital city, and Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, have been put on hold to allow governments to focus on other urgent matters, the East African has reported.
Construction of the 1 757-metre-long road and rail bridge which was scheduled to begin in August this year, is designed to ease traffic between the two cities.
“Other projects given priority include the rehabilitation of the Matadi-Kinshasa railway line; the modernisation of the port of Matadi; and the construction of the Kinshasa-Ilebo railway line. Kinshasa aims to attract financial inflows by building the deep-water port in Banana, in Kongo Central,” the East African reported. – Zoë van Rooyen
