USA HISTORY

To what figure did League pressure reduce the death rate on the Tanganyika railway in Africa (from 50%)?

(A) 10%

(B) 25%

(C) ** 4%

(D) 9%

Concept note-1: -The railway network provided Europeans in Sub-Saharan Africa with a means of controlling the areas where they had colonies, linking one part of a region to another. This made it possible to impose the same sets of laws and regulations over vast areas.

Concept note-2: -Railways Transport in East Africa Due to poor conditions of tracks and ageing rolling stock and locomotives, tonnage freight volumes and passenger numbers have continued to fall every year.

Concept note-3: -However, Africa’s rail transport is faced with many challenges – ranging from worn out rails, to poor infrastructure, to inadequate funding, to skills shortage, and to absence of a supporting institutional framework – preventing the sector from reaching these prospects.

Concept note-4: -With a network of over 30, 000km (18, 600 miles) of track, South Africa has the most advanced railway system on the continent, but it has been stripped by criminals looking to make money from scrap metal.