In Mali, dreams and sadness for the Sahel express

Not a single train has travelled on the line connecting the capitals of Mali and Senegal since May 17, 2018, when the company collapsed. Knee-high weeds grow on the track at Bamako station. But even today, many of the railway’s workers — unpaid but still technically employed — still show up at the station, a colonial-era bijou in ochre stone, complete with clock and signs for the ticket office.

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