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Congo-Ocean Railway in 1932
Congo-Ocean Railway in 1932

A passenger train stops at the Brazzaville station on the Congo-Ocean Railway in 1932. It has been estimated that 17,000 of the construction workers, who were mainly recruited from what is now southern Chad and the Central African Republic, died during the construction of the railway, which was completed in 1934

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