Around 282 kilometers of an electrified Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line will be built from Uvinza in Tanzania (on the Tabora – Kigoma SGR line), across the international border along the Malagarasi River to Musongati and then on to Gitega, both in Burundi.
“The governments of Tanzania and Burundi entered into a bilateral agreement to implement this multinational project as a single project in the territories of Tanzania and Burundi,” according to the tender document. The project will run for five years.
The tender document for the Tanzania-Burundi line indicates that the two governments have applied for construction finance from the African Development Bank (AfDB).
In December 2022, Tanzania signed a $2.2 billion USD deal with China that will see a total SGR network of 2,561 kilometers, linking the port city of Dar es Salaam with landlocked countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo , Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
