MILITARY/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, OCTOBER 1974 - MARCH 1975

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: April 1, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTOGRAPHIC
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REPORT
MILITARY/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS,
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA,
OCTOBER 1974 - MARCH 1915
APRIL 1975
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MILITARY/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA,
OCTOBER 1974 - MARCH 1975
1. This report summarizes selected developments in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa
as observed . Data is included on Somalia,
Ethiopia, Zambia, and Tanzania (Figure 1 and Table 1).
Somalia
2. Soviet naval combatants and auxiliaries were again seen at the Berbera Port Facilities in
northern Somali Of particular interest was an Echo I-class SSN tied up alongside
an Ugra-class submarine tender. This was the first time an Echo-I SSN had been seen at a Somali
port.
3. Also construction had progressed in an area 2 nautical miles (nm) southwest
of the Berbera Port Facilities. This construction has now been identified as a missile handling and
storage facility of an unknown type (Figure 2). The facility is partially secured around the perimeter
and is divided into three separately secured areas -- a checkout/assembly and storage area with a
high-bay checkout/assembly building, one unidentified building, two large earth-covered storage
bunkers, and a rectangular concrete surfaced area; a missile handling and fueling area with eight
small scattered buildings including two under construction; and a component storage area with three
small earth-covered, single-entrance bunkers and one small earth-covered, drive-through bunker.
4. The cleared area 4 nm southwest of the Berbera Port Facilities showed no change since
dimensions of this cleared
area were approximately 16,130 by 300 feet.
5. The entire Berbera-Hargeisa road has been graded and at least half of it has been surfaced.
A facility 14 nm northwest of Hargeisa and 1 nm west-southwest of Daraweina, reported
as part of the Daraweina Military Installation, has
been identified as a storage facility (Figure 3). The facility is double fenced and
~onsisted of four 110- by 45-foot storage buildings under construction, each in an excavation.
Eight other buildings were in various stages of construction. A separate, double-fenced support area
0.5 nm west of the storage facility (not shown in Figure 3) included foundations for at least six
buildings and an excavation containing four probable horizontal storage tanks. An additional ten
probable storage tanks were scattered throughout the support area.
7. A total of 35 tanks were visible at the Daraweina Military Installation and Bederwanak
Army Barracks and Tank Battalion Headquarters There were 13 canvas-covered
tanks at the Daraweina facility and an additional 22 tanks in the bays of a roofless vehicle shed
at Bederwanak.
8. The Tan-Zam railroad is now complete throughout Tanzania and into Zambia to a point
approximately 50 nm northeast of its terminus at Kapiri Mposhi.l
indicated that the roadbed had been completed to Kapiri Mposhi and that track had been laid to
a point 5 nm southeast of Mkushi, where a track-laying device was observed. The railyard at Mpika
is now complete, although the Kapiri Mposhi railyard was still under construction in January. The
bridge in Zambia over the Chambezi River has been completed (Figure 4). There was no photo coverage
south from Mpika to a point 10 nm northeast of the Lake Lusiwasi railyard. However, trains at
Lake Lusiwasi (Figure 5) and points west indicated that track had been laid in the unphotographed
area.
9. A new air warning radar site was observed 7.5 nm southwest of Dar es Salaam on the
north side of the Tan-Zam rail line. The site is occupied by a SLOT REST radar. Ngerengere Airfield,*
65 nm west of Dar es Salaam, is the only other location in Tanzania where a SLOT REST radar
has been observed.
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Somalia
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Berbera Missile Handling
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Somalia
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Daraweina Military Installation
Somalia
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Somalia
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Tanzania
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10. New bunker construction was discovered at the Lugalo Probable Communications Facility,
approximately 6 nm northwest of Dar es Salaam and just south of Dar es Salaam Army Barracks
Lugalo** at 06-46S 039-13E. The probable communications facility contains a concrete bunker 290
by 140 feet An adjacent excavation 240 by 180 feet contains floor
foundations. This bunker construction closely resembles the concrete bunkers previously identified
at Kisarawe and Kazimzumbwe, southwest of Dar es Salaam.
Ethiopia
11. A new airfield was in an early stage of construction approximately 15 nm east-southeast
of Combolcia and approximately 150 nm southeast of Addis Ababa. The airfield consists of a 7,600-
by 130-foot northeast/southwest graded-earth runway with a parallel taxiway. A construction support
area was adjacent to the main runway.
1. NPIC PIR-048/73, Construction Status of the Tan-Zam (Great Uhuru) Railroad, Oct 73 (TOP
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, PIR-081/74, Military/Eco
nomic Developments, Sub-Saharan Africa, Jan 75 (TOP SECRET
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