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UNITED NATIONS
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
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LIMITED
E/CN.14/TRANS/108
13 March 1974 ENGLISHOriginal: ENGLISH
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA ■ Fourth Meeting of the Trans-African
Highway Co-ordinating Committee Lagos, 3-6 April 1974
FEEDER LINKS TO THE TRANS-AFRICAN HIGHWAY.
FIVE YEkli WORK
M74-517
E/CN.U/TRANS/108
Feeder Links to the Trans-African Highway Five Year Work Programme
1. The Trans-African Highway project which connects Mombasa (Kenya) with
Lagos (Nigeria) through Uganda, Zaire, Central African Republic and Cameroon is also of interest to the following 11 countries which would be linked to the Highway by feeder roads: Burundi, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Malawi,.^Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia,
2. The current status of the feeder roads, which is shown country by country in Annex I, may be summarized as follows:
(a) of the total length of 14 O"1 km, about 9 229 km {6G&) are of all-
weather standard and these are composed of:
(i) 4 534 km bitumen surfaced roads;
(ii) 4 695 km all—weather but not bitumen surfaced roads; and
(b) the remaining 4 842 km (34$) consist of partially improved and unimproved
earth roads, tracks and tr"ails.
3« The proposed Five Ysar Work Programme, given in Annex I, is based on information available at the secretariat with tregard to the present condition of the feeder roads.
FeederLinkstotheTrans-AfricanHighway FiveYearWorkProgramme lie*CountrySectionLength
(km.)A
Currentstatus1S74 1S75 1976 1577 1978
1. 2. 3,Burundi Rwanda Uganda Chad CAR Congo CAR
Bujumbura^Kayanza Kayanza-Kigali Kigali-Kagitumba Kagitumba-Ntungamo Ntungamo-Kampala Ndjamena-Guelengdeng Guelengdeng-Lai Lai-Gore Gore-Bossembele Brazzaville-Inoni Inoni-iiambowa Gamboma-Makoua Makoua-Bomassa Bomassa-Salo Salo-Berberati Berberati-Baoro
TotalRwanda TotalUganda GRANDTOTAL. TotalChad GRANDTOTAL TotalCongo TotalCAR GRANDTOTAL
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184
202 32156
232605
376185 146
272317
920 118 180 191489
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TotalEq.GuineaGabon Ebebiyin-Bitarn-frontier
CameroonFrontier-Yaounde Yaounde-B&foussam TotalCameroon GRANDTOTALAsphalted Dry-weather All-weather All-weather All-weather
8
Ethiopia Kenya 6,Gabon Cameroon 7.MalawiAddisAbaba-Awasa Awasa-Dilla Dilla-Moyale TotalEthiopia I'ioyale-Isiolo Isiolo-Nairobi TotalKenya GRANDTOTAL
Asphalted All-weather Underconstruction All-weather Asphalted
1 591
Libreville-BifoumBifoum-Bitarn-frontier
Front*er-BafoussamTotalGabon174 472
646631
All-weather All-weather All-weather GRAND.,TOTAL1277 Lilongwe-Mzimba Mzimba-Rumpi
Rumpi-Karonga
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(km")
Currentstatus19741SJin
Zambia Tanzania KenyaKaronga-Tunduma Tunduma-Iringa Iringar-Dodoma
Dodoma-Arusha
;- Arusha-Namahgo Namango-Nairobi185 507
260 430108
TotalTanzania1305169
Total2274
Dry-weather
Asphalted
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Kayanza^-Kigali Kigali-Kagitumba
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365 151
Somalia y(.• CenyaMogadishu-Goluin113 Goluin-Gelib.-301 Gelib-Kisimaio114 Kisimaio-Liboi..225
■ -- Total Somalia ' 753 Libai-Garissa . - . 206 Garissa-Nairobi 383 Total Kenya 589
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KenyaSection
Khartoum-Wad Medani Wad Medani-Kosti Kosti-Malakal Malakal-Iuba Iuba-Nimul'e
T Nimule-GuluGulu-Kampala
Total Sudan Total Uganda
GRANDTOTALDar es Salaam- Arusha Arusna-Namango Namango-Nairobi Total Tanzania
GRANDTOTALLength
177 229
508610 1 699 99
338444 2 14I 639
108747
169Lusaka-Tunduma Tunduma-Iringa Iringa-Dodoma-Arusha Arusha-Namango Namango-Nairobi Total Tanzania GRAND TOTAL
1029 507
690 108 TI05
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Section
Length Current Status 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 (km)
Sarh-Moundou lioundou-Cameroonfront. TotalChad Cameroonfront•-Gambi Gamba-TAH TotalCameroon GRANDTOTAL299
125424
217273 "490" ~9U
Allweather Dryweather Dryweather All-weather
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ff eff eff ff 2Sudan Ethiopia Kenya
Khartoum-Wadliedani NadKedani-Gedaref Gedaref-Ketema TotalSudan Metema-Azezo Azezo-AddisAbaba AddisAbaba-Moyale Moyale-Nairobi GRANDTOTAL
177
135 155 "567* 221 748 787
TotalEthiopia1756 804
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