In August 2026, Congo's Council of Ministers approved a collaboration convention worth about $1.26 billion to rehabilitate the Dilolo–Sakania line: roughly a thousand kilometres of track running from the Angolan border, across the Congolese copper belt, to the Zambian border. It is good news. Copper and cobalt from Katanga have spent decades travelling thousands of kilometres by road to ports in South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique. Trucking is slow, expensive, and exposed to every border qu...