… som de er denne morgenen, gjør det tross alt godt å lese historier som denne i Guardian, om gjenåpningen av en jernbanestrekning i Kongo som er i ferd med forvandle livet til 15 millioner mennesker i det krigsherjede landet: “It was like a miracle. People saw this as the end of the war,” said Benjamin Abeli, Samba’s station manager. His years as a refugee in the forest, scavenging wild berries, were over, he felt. Despite the tropical heat he wore a jacket and tie and his black shoes gleamed. By next year he hopes to have a typewriter, calculator and computer for the office.