The construction of transportation infrastructure has always been one of the key factors restricting trade exchanges among African countries. Recently, Dieudonné Dukundane, executive secretary of the Central Corridor Transit Transport Promotion Agency, stated that the governments of Tanzania and Burundi will begin to raise US$1.9 billion to build a 190-kilometer cross-border railway between Ithaca and Burundi in Tanzania. The railway will promote the export of Burundi's nickel ore and strengthen trade exchanges between Tanzania and its neighboring countries, especially Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Central Corridor Transit Transport Promotion Agency was established in September 2006. The member countries are Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Congo (DRC). The main task of this agency is to ensure that member states implement the "Central Corridor Treaty" and promote the construction of communication lines from Dar es Salaam to the landlocked countries of East Africa. Editor/Xu Shengpeng