Trans–West African Coastal Highway

The Dakar - Lagos Highway is an international highway project to Nigeria in the east connects twelve West African countries of Mauritania in the northwest of the region together, including two feeder roads in countries without access to the sea, Mali and Burkina Faso.

The eastern end of the highway is Lagos in Nigeria. Some organizations, such as the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS), Nouakchott in Mauritania regarded as its western end, while others, such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Dakar in Senegal. Therefore, there is for this road also the following names:

  • Nouakchott - Lagos Highway
  • Lagos - Nouakchott Highway
  • Dakar - Lagos Highway
  • Lagos -Dakar Highway
  • Trans - African Highway 7 in the network of the Trans - African Highways
  • Trans - West African Coastal Highway

On the state

Total length and road conditions

The length of the route is 4560 km, of which 83 % or 3777 km according to the documents of the African Union ( AU) are paved, or 4010 kilometers, of which, according to the African Development Bank ( ADB) are 3260 kilometers asphalted ( in the latter information is the Nouakchott -Dakar route, with 560 km in length not included). There are about nine unpaved sections and some paved sections must be urgently replaced. On the entire route, the highway has two lanes, except for a brief four-track in the eastern third. The ADB reports from 2003 indicate that 32% of the road is in poor condition, 9 % in good condition and 59 % are in satisfactory condition.

Operating organizations

The highway is a project of ECOWAS and the New Partnership for Africa's Development ( NEPAD), the AU, with the support of the African Development Bank ( ADP). Although the route is No. 7 ( TAH 7) of the Trans - African highways that includes nine routes.

Route

The following cities and states connects the route:

  • Nouakchott in Mauritania - present, by:
  • Dakar in Senegal ( lane ) - available by:
  • Banjul in Gambia - present, with some routes are not paved, after by Gambia and southern Senegal:
  • Bissau in Guinea- Bissau - present, after Quebo; it lacks a short distance to the border with Guinea, where a larger bridge over the Kogon River in 2004 should be started;
  • It lacks a 200- km route in Guinea from the border to Boké;
  • In Guinea, of Boké to Conakry ( lane ) and the border with Sierra Leone is available;
  • In Sierra Leone, a renovation of a 126 km long piece of Pamalap to Freetown ( lane ) is required, the section exists after Bandajuma, 97 km of new road with a new bridge over the Moa River to Zimmi is required, on to the Liberian border;
  • In Liberia, there is the section of Monrovia inland to Ganta, the 100 km long section Ganta - Tappita - Tobli boundary is absent to the Ivory Coast;
  • In Ivory Coast, a new section on Liberian border is used by Toulepleu after Blolekin, where the road from there on Yamoussoukro and Abidjan to the border of Ghana is complete:
  • In Ghana there is the road over Cape Coast and Accra to the border with Togo and 31 kilometers east of Akatsi until after Dzodze have been replaced by a new road parallel to the old;
  • 80 km through Togo have been replaced by a new road passing north of Lome;
  • The section in Benin through Cotonou and Porto Novo exists until the Nigerian border;
  • About 60 km from the border to Lagos Nigeria also exist.

Comments

Feeder roads and other international highways

Bamako in Mali and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso (the two countries in the ECOWAS without access to the sea ) are already associated with the coastal highway on asphalt roads to Abidjan, Accra and Lome. Lagos is connected through the largest network of asphalt roads in West Africa, Nigeria and has connections to the neighboring countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

The Dakar - N'Djamena - Highway is another ECOWAS project and runs parallel to the coast highway, with the countries of the Sahel region of West Africa from Dakar to N'Djamena in Chad are connected to each other.

Two other roads are also in construction of Lagos on the Trans - West African Coastal Highway:

  • The Algiers- Lagos Highway to Algiers in Algeria, which is already largely paved, and
  • The Lagos - Mombasa Highway, which still has a large dirt track by the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Trans - West African Coastal Highway can then be considered as the western end of a route from the westernmost to easternmost point of the continent with a total length of 10,269 km.

Cairo -Dakar Highway | Algiers- Lagos Highway | Tripoli - Windhoek ( Cape Town ) Highway | Cairo - Gaborone ( Cape Town ) Highway | Dakar - N'Djamena - Highway | N'Djamena - Djibouti Highway | Dakar Lagos Highway | Lagos - Mombasa Highway | Beira- Lobito Highway

  • Trans - African Highways
  • Traffic (Mauritania)
  • Traffic (Senegal)
  • Road in Gambia
  • Traffic (Guinea -Bissau )
  • Traffic (Sierra Leone)
  • Traffic (Liberia)
  • Traffic (Ivory Coast)
  • Transportation (Ghana)
  • Traffic (Benin)
  • Transport (Nigeria )
  • Traffic (Mali)
  • Traffic ( Burkina Faso)
Trans-African Highway network The Gambia Trans-Sahara Highway Lagos–Mombasa Highway Cairo–Dakar Highway Cairo – Cape Town Highway Beira–Lobito Highway
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