Trans-Sahara Highway

The Algiers- Lagos Highway - also known as Trans-Sahara Highway - is a project to an existing asphalt trade route across the Sahara Desert, to improve and simplify the border formalities. It connects North Africa to the Mediterranean coast in the north and West Africa on the Atlantic Ocean in the south and leads from Algiers in Algeria to Lagos in Nigeria. He is also known as the Lagos - Algiers -highway and is in the system of the Trans - African Highways ( TAH ), the No. 2 dar.

Formation

The Algiers- Lagos Highway is the oldest cross-border highway in Africa and one of the most advanced. It was planned in 1962 and 1970, work began on the first sections of the Sahara. Your mid section is still not widely used and this requires specially equipped vehicles and must meet the middle of the desert arrangements for survival in the inhospitable environment and the extreme climate.

Length and condition

The Algiers- Lagos highway has a length of about 4500 km, about 80 % of which are paved. He performs the three countries of Algeria, Niger and Nigeria. However, it is attributable to that highway additional 3600 km of feeder roads to Tunisia, to Chad and Mali.

The entire 1200 km of trunk roads in Nigeria are part of the national road network in the country and are asphalted, 500 km of which are carried out even as a four-lane road with median barrier. The maintenance of roads in Nigeria, however, is deficient, so that parts of the road are likely to be in poor condition and may have possibly even lost their asphalt surface.

Half of the highway, over 2300 km, located in Algeria and particularly south of In Salah is the biggest part in poor condition, as it is regularly inundated by floods from the Hoggar Mountains and must be repaired. 2007, the southern half of the 400 km from Tamanrasset to In Guezzam was nachgeteert on the border with Niger, but the rest is dirt road. In the entire history between Algiers and the border with Niger, the road is designated as a National Road 1.

Niger has 985 km of road, of which 655 km paved but in poor condition, are. For more information, see below.

Furthermore, a Sahara crossing by the Tripoli - Windhoek ( Cape Town ) Highway ( TAH 3) in planning, but this route requires a lot more work has to struggle with problems of instability and lawlessness in northern Chad, and is probably the boost trade not as strong as the TAH 2 Therefore its completion probably take decades.

Two other trunk roads run through the Sahara, but at their ends. 2005, the Cairo -Dakar Highway ( TAH 1 ) to the west along the Atlantic coast became the first completely paved highway, the Sahara from the north crossed to the south ( It includes a few kilometers in the no man's land between Morocco / Western Sahara and Mauritania). The Cairo - Gaborone ( Cape Town ) Highway ( TAH 4 ) follows the Nile in the east, but has many unpaved sections in Sudan and Ethiopia.

Route

Following cities and countries are on this highway, and her condition in detail is as follows:

In Algeria

From Algiers to Ghardaia, 625 km, asphalted, in good condition;
From Ghardaia to Tamanrasset, 1291 km, also paved but in poor condition;
From Tamanrasset to In Guezzam on the border with Niger 400 km, partly paved, but can be managed with conventional vehicles with two-wheel drive;
From In Guezzam after Assamaka, the border posts in Niger: 28 km lane in soft sand.

In Niger

From Assamaka after Arlit, 200 km marked lane in the sand, but can be managed with conventional vehicles with two-wheel drive;
From Arlit to Agadez, 243 km asphalted in 1980, but some are in poor condition;
From Agadez to Zinder, 431 km of which 301 km are paved and the remaining 130 km are located " in an improved condition ";
From Zinder after Magaria to the Nigerian border, 111 km, paved but in poor condition.

In Nigeria

From the border to Niger to Lagos via Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ibadan: 1193 km paved, of which 127 km are in good condition and 1066 km in " satisfactory ".

On the whole, there are, though, some paved sections are in poor condition, 200 km of the section of the original sand runway and only 130 km are not paved, but " improved in condition ".

Feeder roads

These highways are considered feeder roads or parallel connections of the Algiers- Lagos Highway:

Gabès - Gafsa - Hazoua in Tunisia, 299 km, asphalted;
Hazoua - Ghardaia in Algeria, 503 km, asphalted;
Tamanrasset - Bordj Mokhtar paved in Algeria, 80 km, 640 km of sandy slopes;
Reggane - Bordj Moktar - Gao - Bamako ( Mali), 1191 km asphalted, 1370 km gravel road, known as the Tanezrouftpiste;
Labbezanga - Niamey ( Niger), 208 km paved, 47 km mud road;
Zinder - N'Guigmi, 650 km paved.

Swell

African Development Bank / United Nations Economic Commission For Africa: Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links: Volume 2: Description of Corridors 14 August, 2003.
Sahara Overland; A Route and Planning Guide Issue 2 ( English).

Trans - African Highways
Street in Algeria
Traffic (Niger )
Transport (Nigeria )

Trans-African Highway network Cairo–Dakar Highway Cairo – Cape Town Highway Ghardaïa Oyo (Nigeria) Trans–West African Coastal Highway Lagos–Mombasa Highway Beira–Lobito Highway

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