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Article: BURKINA FASO-ECONOMY: RAILWAY TO NOWHERE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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Abdoulaye Gandema and Brahima Ouedraogo
Inter Press Service English News Wire
09-22-1995
OUAGADOUGOU, Sept. 21 (IPS) -- The town of Toussiana no longer
features on the railway timetable. The station, 430 kilometers west
of the capital, was shut down by the Burkinabe Railway Company's
(SCFB) new owners.
Only eight of the country's 22 stations are to be kept
operational by the Abidjan-based conglomerate, the International
Rail Transport Company (Sitarail), condemning 13 other towns and
villages across this barren country to isolation and stagnation.
The situation highlights the controversy surrounding the
government's decision in 1993 to off-load the SCFB along with 39
other state-owned ...