Northeast Africa Railway

The Northeast Africa Railway is an ongoing project to create a series of railways stretching from Tripoli and reaching Alexandria, Cairo, Khartoum, Addis Ababa, Mogadishu and Asmara. Although the railway in the Horn of Africa has been completed, it has been forced to stop working due to Somalian rebels capturing part of the railroad in Italian Somaliland.
= History =
== The North-East Africa Project ==
The North-East Africa Project traces its history back to November 1931 in a meeting in Berbera with Ethiopian Egyptian and Italian delegates to discuss ways to help better both nations while also alleviating the effects of the Great Crash. Although it occurred 4 years back both nations were unable to recover from such a monumental loss and they knew something had to be done. For the first time in decades criticism of the Ethiopian monarchy came into mainstream media while syndicalism saw a resurgence in northern Italy. The region was the lifeblood of Italian heavy industry and if it was disrupted it just might give Italian subjects the opportunity to rise up. Egypt was the least effected by the Great Depression but it stil, had profound effects on the people and country.
The idea of an Italian-Ethiopian-Egyptian railway was flirted with constantly since the early 1920z but nothing came of it until the Meeting of Berbera, where the idea was proposed yet again. The first vision was that the railway would stretch from Asmara to Mogadishu, going through Addis Ababa linking the two Italian colonies closer together while also giving Ethiopia profit in the trade from the railway going through their territory. That was just in the Horn of Africa, as the railroad would then extent from Addis Ababa into Khartoum, going up the River Nile into Cairo and Alexandria, and then going into Italian Libya to Tripoli. 
An idea similar was the French-Ethiopian railway, stretching from Addis Ababa to French Somaliland, but as the French colonial apparatus was deteriorating so was the railway as it was used less and less.
== The plan begins, and its completion (in East Africa) ==
== Conflict with Somalian rebels ==
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