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camino is a ghost station in the south of the democratic republic of congo. there's been no train service for five months but now it's running again but the train left

lubumbashi the second largest city five days ago. no one knows when it will arrive . the train everyone is waiting for has a surprising name home del or the swallow. news of the swallows arrival spreads like wildfire by the bush telegraph all word of mouth. it's the cheapest rail service in the d.r. congo like a local bus it stops a virtually every station and drools huge crowds. half of them a street vendors a day every stop even in the remotest villages the station becomes an instant

market. am. i don't know if that is the idea of home to grab yet i wrote that there are several i don't know. about but i'm good. but there's not much time for selling. the train is already packed. passengers clamber for remaining seats. clement has been riding this train for twenty years and knows what to expect.

from c. but it got there i think because the self-employed says it said this is their ducks it was just fun until probably forty. said to simulate let's. sit by young today. or not so much at the scene do you do for these young people for the business. but this i say louise it's so this it's a sonic as i said if. people cram into whatever space they can find nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity. for those who want to able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. and it is really quite open about what it is and he said that it is only

a few simple words it will let you go after that much of a tell you could do it but only did what you said i was upset about. was. located in the heart of the continent the democratic republic of congo is the largest country in sub-saharan africa. the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to elaine and is the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years. the old engine was bought second hand in south africa. a relay of ten drivers is needed to cover the one thousand six hundred kilometer journey. but. the driver is sixty three years old

missed him a long go has one of the hardest parts of the trip. one hundred and twenty kilometers of trouble see about the road where we never go riding said as i got so remember. that is on the subject that i thought about said you're already a physical that's why the trip was this every something from. mr malone go is the monster on board and supplements his income by allowing ten passengers to travel in the drive is counted. it's as close as he gets to first class on the train. but. back in second class the challenge is to avoid stepping on someone as you try

and move around the carriage. it's something clear can't get used to. let you up but that was said it's all bus and the c c said it could be said all pervasive myth about the. city coming made it. sends us he said then did you not think what this thing can see a lot of big this new goose just want us to call buffy among them on the sunday before they put up a video of the interview. with you know the. passengers take as much luggage as they can. it is on them it's an equally so protocol that needed. on a cd expose it equally possible i love. you. the full song to we're. supposed to keep playing along as of old to see

them up but do. extraordinary things sometimes happen. when i was younger and as i was. meissen i know you. don't want to see what you want to do and i didn't want those again those are the. funds. so mostly some subtle. but. it does. argue were out for me but i will say that. the train can also be a death trap. to be plotted successful but it does not sit at sup if i did not think it did for gus nossal. to help us in my life. last year the snake is named several passengers.

and those in third class risked their lives here on the route. they can easily get knocked off the moving train. and now when i come to know before going out with. her dad says i believe that something was going to be spoiled boy would be. his fellow travelers up on third class have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. but they believe. that.

the danger comes not just from above but also from the sun. even if the moderate speed of thirty killer. which is a noun a tree branch can cut like a machete. see . it everywhere all over the symbols are there's a lot of other. so forth your best reporters say. says. these are some of the remotest areas of the d.r. congo. as dawn breaks free men are preparing for

a long journey. they're traveling salesman training in kosov a flower a palm oil in the villages they work for osama. bin laden on a mobile go there should be a should know the only year what it was you were doing here enjoy what you do does your mom want to. talk or you one of them was to give them all or most dear go one on one ok one your food food food. man and his companions a setting out on an arduous one hundred sixty kilometer journey through villages in the country so. it will probably take them around four or five days. you know to the little.

most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere. and reaching them means travelling on the tracks so the congolese improvise. they converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of much of don's. food yeah you cool live from sun up. to work if you know school you know to be sure what if what if what if would make it jungle enough what you need. to know

my name was difficult to speak. to to. do. better but. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. just feel. bad that.

we are no more but was there full of it dumb oaklawn dipping was in john or was there whole thing again. you know we know. by nightfall they reach a village. to once they won't sleep by the side of the road but in a church. this will be their only meal for the day. here in this you impose your mobile. phone. unit guys you can a woman whose son was good enough to go forcing you know what's going. on with you you know funny you know so you just go you know they'll. come over you know the book. look the window plus. we made

up on it was just too much fun in the. place you got by duke. it was a joke with little muscle. at the mush didn't we don't get all. the village of kissed the two is sixty kilometers away. another three days of hard labor. that our photos are. a man and his family are on the track. by waving

a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of the bush go up up. up so i'm just done with him and i don't end up with you just proved yet what what when where i mean i'm sure. it's often like this. holiday work for little pay. mr malone go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. or never ever survived never mind it out of the gutter never have. thought of first of all what they did for their double shuffle. around my. head was going to separate what it. see ever go get your pick up a bottle of whiskey to the level of good.

but right now his main concern is the state of the truck. he has to reduce speed to less than ten kilometers an hour. at this point the rails are not really aligned any little bit of progress. that are locked therefore loaded up with this. stuff. this outfit a civil society civil touch. got to show. that i said you've got. to get out probably so just trust the dump risky up i said about lasts that turn dodger go with reversion regardless of what

those effects are threw it out yet is good i will not go. back in the bush and his two associates have covered a third of their journey but the day is off to a bad start as one bike has had a puncture. somebody get out the welcome. it's the fifth time in one day. without a repair kit to a new in a cheap. patches the puncher with a piece of rubber from an old cheap one hopes for the best.

most men and his companions still have another thirty kilometers to go to reach the next village. and you'll come up with a full on your show if you're going to come with on what i can name. but good for you open up what help with food we give. you don't put a few up on. that . day and your hunger. and fatigue. they barely have the strength to push their bikes any further.

than the. you know. what i'm going to call when we all want to go. home i. don't know when did the whole interview. my mike came to me. and perhaps their prayers have been on since the rain has stopped and they finally arrive. when no. one yeah.

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yaml our rooms are. so we want to. go whoa whoa whoa. the three companions journey will soon be over when they get home in a week's time they'll of earned enough money to feed their families. back home build the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. some from there. but just when everything seems more or less normal missed him a long go is confronted with a new problem. the train is losing speed. eventually comes to a complete stop. to find that it does so in the middle of a village is no coincidence. mr malone go believes it's sabotage if he suspects the

vendor is the one known as traffickers in the congo. and. this is because. people saw. it go through the world got through that does that it's. just to get lucky. but we go back to the stuff. that gets a bit of time i would love to get to the time i. want to do you know if you got a lot of good to know about fly over i just remember going to. big has been riding the swallow for ten years on this trip he's selling soldiering while the next time

he'll sell something else out of it on the way the train provides him with a living i want to do so much russian guy so to do my children and to government to do it to them it would have to be my lot. morning isn't that little episode is a local about but they said if i have a booklet i know you've been to so much you're nervous about that if you go most in august about that you know you're going to succumb with an absolute those only one about the time that the couple now muslim. center moto motor want to find out what's. coming. down the. road but. missed them along go still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching their

labor to trains final destination. if all goes well the sixteen hundred kilometer journey will have taken eight days. to swallow continues on its way. despite the obstacles it's a necessary but precarious lifeline to thousands of connally. in the heart of the amazon and believe me in families the family lives imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. which can sing the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to believe me out. at this time on al-jazeera.

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