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Dakar to inaugurate express train to counter sprawling traffic jams / V000_9V828E
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After five years' work and at a cost of more than a billion dollars, Senegal's capital city next Monday will finally welcome a new commuter railway line. Politicians are lining up to extol the benefits of slashing journey times and decongesting Dakar once the gleaming TER regional express trains start to roll. But thousands of residents claim they have not been properly compensated for homes and businesses that were demolished to make way for the much-trumpeted line. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES