A long defunct rail link has reopened in Nigeria and there is some hope that it could help unite a country which is reeling from Islamist insurgency in the north.

Paris, France (PANA) - French President Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday, together with Moroccan King Mohammed VI, attend the official launch of a high-speed 200km railway linking Tangiers and Casablan...

DJIBOUTI (AP) ? The new electrified rail line snakes through the African desert, charting a course from a port along the Djibouti coast to Addis Ababa, the capital of land-locked Ethiopia. The Chinese ...

Rabat (AFP) - Engineers in Morocco are preparing to test the Arab world's first high-speed railway this week with trains reaching 320 kilometres (200 miles) per hour, the country's rail office said Mon...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The death toll from Egypt?s latest train disaster rose to 41 as cranes and rescue workers toil to clear the railway line between Cairo and Alexandria. Society

It was a typical guest list at an African hotel in a troubled region: aid workers from all over, trying to make things better; Russian pilots; Chinese business people; Western politicians; American mil...

A train left stranded in the Egyptian desert nine years ago after railway tracks were stolen is being moved back to Cairo by lorry.

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? North African countries must work to improve their maritime and railway transport networks, while strengthening the transit capacities of their border passages in order to incre...

[Focus]Presidents Paul Kagame, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Salva Kiir of South Sudan on Wednesday launched the construction of a regional standard-gauge railway....

WAU, South Sudan ? Teresa Adut Akol?s new home is a small patch of concrete floor in a railway station outside this town. She shares the space with her eight children and stacks of their belongings, s...