US Takes Up China's Infrastructure Mantel in Africa

JOHANNESBURG - This week, the U.S. State Department confirmed that Washington's plan to refurbish and extend the Lobito Corridor - a railway that will run through mineral-rich Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to an Atlantic port in Angola - is moving full steam ahead.

Such ambitious infrastructure investments by other powers in Africa have been derailed in the past. For years, China has tried with mixe