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I have been on Gibraltar and Africa really seems close – You would think they would have come up with the idea a long time ago.

The Moroccan government has been holding talks with its Spanish counterparts to start the project, which would consist of a railway beneath the Strait of Gibraltar carrying freight, passengers and cars.

Work is expected to start in 2008.

The ferry between Tangier in Morocco and southern Spain is the traditional way people have travelled from Africa to Europe.

Read more: BBC

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