The current phase of East Africa's national canal plan still follows the previous concept: by building a new batch of artificial waterways to connect the nationwide water network, it will indirectly achieve the goal of combining river and sea transport.
Counting the earlier canal projects already built in East Africa, once the national canal plan is completed, the total length of artificial canals in East Africa will reach an astounding five thousand kilometers or so. Bear in mind that the Congo River is only a little over four thousand kilometers long; if all these artificial canals were linked together, it would be no less than digging out a new Yellow River.
Of course, a terrifying project on the scale of East Africa's is not without precedent. In the previous world, the Soviet Union and the Far East Empire could both be described as "insanely obsessed" when it came to canal construction, to a degree most Western countries could hardly comprehend.
