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Article: Transport under the hammer. (Zaire)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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As the Zairean state withers away under the weight of inefficiency and corruption, the Government of President Mobutu and his Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo is increasingly looking to the private sector to take over the running of the country's essential transport services. Francois Misser reports on the latest round of wheeling and dealing.
A bizarre cocktail of foreign investors has been revealed as last ditch hope for Zaire's dying national carrier, Air Zaire.
The airline barely exists at all today. It operates only one of its designated lines, from Goma to Nairobi, and some analysts say this service exists solely because it is a gold smugglers route.
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