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Malanje-Luanda railway line with a contractual value of 355 million U.S. dollars is so far the largest infrastructural project China has contracted in Angola. ... It took three years for China Railway 20th Bureau to instruct some 4,300 local workers to complete the project which consists of
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On 18 February 2012, the rail line was interrupted for at least two days when a truck crashed into a passenger train at a level crossing in the locality "Cabebeia", in município de
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1687:2017-07-11
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