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The Southern African Development Community Regional Trunk Road Network or SADC RTRN is a trans nation road network across Southern Africa. [1] The projects in Africa being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), [2] [3] the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union in conjunction with the Southern African Development Community.
Colonial powers and, later, competing superpowers and regional powers, generally did not encourage road links between their respective spheres except where absolutely necessary (i.e. trade), and in newly independent African states, border restrictions were often tightened rather than relaxed as a way of protecting internal trade, as a weapon in border disputes, and to increase the ...
The Trans-Sahara Highway or TAH 2, formally the Trans-Saharan Road Corridor (TSR), [1] and also known as the African Unity Road, [2] is a transnational infrastructure project to facilitate trade, transportation, and regional integration among six African countries: Algeria, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Tunisia. [2]
A road in Gambia, 2007. The system of transportation in the Gambia mixes both public and private operations and consists of a system of roads (both paved and unpaved), water and air transportation. The Trans-Gambia Highway runs along both sides of the river Gambia , which bisects the country.
The transport system in Rwanda centres primarily around the road network. Paved roads lie between the capital, Kigali , and most other major cities and towns in the country. Rwanda is also linked by road with other countries in the African Great Lakes , via which the majority of the country's imports and exports are made.
South Africa's road traffic system might be less effective than most industrial countries, but it is not worse than other African nations. South Africa has an institutional framework for road safety led by the Road Traffic Management Corporation. South African laws follow global best practices, including speed limits, drink-driving, motorcycle ...
Road transport in South Africa (5 C, 9 P) Road transport in South Sudan (1 C) Road transport in Sudan (1 C) T. Road transport in Tanzania (2 C, 1 P)
The highway is a project of ECOWAS and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) of the AU, with funding from the African Development Bank. The route is Trans Africa Highway No. 7 (TAH7) in the International Road Federation's list of nine highways which it regards as priorities for a Trans-Africa Highway network. [4]