Sizarail

[1] In 1995 prime minister Léon Kengo wa Dondo allowed foreign investment in some of the railway lines in an attempt to revive them.

[3] In 1997 the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL) began a rebellion, which disrupted Sizarail operations.

[2] The advancing forces of Laurent-Désiré Kabila closed Sizarail on the basis that the operators were friends of president Mobutu Sese Seko.

At this stage the rebels were less than 85 kilometres (53 mi) from Kinshasa, while president Mobutu was attending an African summity in Gabon and was not expected to return.

[3] Sizarail was dissolved in 1997 and all operations were taken over by the Société nationale des chemins de fer du Congo (SNCC).