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The project concerns feasibility and future development of the Kinshasa-Ilebo railway link, often discussed together with the Kinshasa-Brazzaville road-rail bridge agenda. The strategic rationale is to overcome a long-standing bottleneck in the DRC transport system by connecting Kinshasa more effectively to the interior and to regional rail corridors.Historically, DRC s transport network has depended heavily on a combination of river, road and ageing rail assets. AfDB-backed studies considered the feasibility of extending rail connectivity and improving intermodal movement between Kinshasa, Ilebo and neighbouring corridors. This is particularly important for freight movements between the Atlantic gateway, the Congo River basin and mining/agricultural hinterlands.Validation note: external AfDB sources validate the feasibility-study scope and the approximate 1,015 km survey/study distance, but they do not validate the current construction capex_cost of 16,939 USD million. The cost should remain provisional.Sources reviewed: AfDB MapAfrica, Feasibility Study of the Extension of the Kinshasa-Ilebo Railway, https://mapafrica.afdb.org/en/projects/46002-P-Z1-DC0-014; AfDB, Study on the Road-Rail Bridge between Kinshasa and Brazzaville and the Kinshasa-Ilebo Railroad, https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/document/multinational-study-on-the-road-rail-bridge-between-kinshasa-and-brazzaville-and-the-kinshasa-ilebo-railroad-8186.

The Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline is a proposed international gas pipeline corridor intended to move Nigerian gas northward through Niger to Algeria, where it would connect to existing Mediterranean export infrastructure. The database contains both a regional Trans-Sahara record and a Nigeria-section record; these should be treated as related components, not independent additive projects.The project has a long history, dating back to early Nigeria-Algeria cooperation and renewed through trilateral Nigeria-Niger-Algeria ministerial processes. Recent sources report renewed agreements to update feasibility work and accelerate the project. The strategic case is gas monetisation, regional energy security and potential exports to Europe, but security, financing, reserve commitment, competing pipeline routes and energy-transition demand risks remain material.Validation note: public sources commonly cite total project costs in the USD 10-20 billion range, with recent reporting around USD 13 billion. The database capex values for ID 2004 and ID 762 should be checked to avoid double counting the regional pipeline and Nigeria section.Sources reviewed: Global Energy Monitor, Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline, https://www.gem.wiki/Trans-Sahara_Gas_Pipeline; Pipeline Journal, Algeria, Nigeria and Niger sign agreements to advance TSGP, https://www.pipeline-journal.net/news/algeria-nigeria-niger-sign-agreements-advance-trans-saharan-gas-pipeline-project; Flyvbjerg et al., What causes cost overrun in transport infrastructure projects, https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4476.

The project entails the construction of the 2000 km railway line from Douala Port through Cameroon to N'Djamena in Chad.

This project covers the Senegal portion of the Dakar-Ndjamena-Djibouti Road/ Railway project. This is a multimodal transboundary transport corridor including Senegal, Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. It is a combination of the Trans-African Highway 5 (Dakar to N’djamena) and 6 (N’djamena to Djibouti), a combined distance covered of 8,715 km.  However over time, the railway transport route between Dakar and Bamako has become degraded and and created hindrances in the international services for passenger transportation. In order to improve the competitiveness of the route, the two states financed a study in order to define the best way to finance or to participate in the funding of the Dakar- Bamako railway infrastructure upgrade. The project will have the following components: Rehabilitation of the platform and reconstruction of the engineering works to 22.5 tons / axle; Railway rehabilitation (main roads and service roads) Implementation of a train cantonment system and a telecommunications system in line with UIC railway standards; Acquisition of rolling stock and railway equipment; Development and renovation of station facilities. The Dakar-Bamako Rail Project has been prioritised by the Government of Senegal as the first of three phases of the Project. It entails the rehabilitation of the existing railway network between Dakar and Bamako (1,228 km), with a total project cost of US$ 2.2 billion.

The project involves the upgrading of the 640 km road from Eldoret to Nadapal, the border with South Sudan.

Development of new container terminal (berths 13 and 14) with dredging of the access channel at Dar es Salaam Port.

The project forms part of the upgrading of the 1,200 km of narrow gauge railway between Abidjan and Ouagadougou. In particular it involves the section in Ivory Coast, from Abidjan to the border with Burkina Fasso.

This project includes development of 3 new berths on the eastern side of Dar es Salaam port, linked by a bridge south of the existing dockyard and fronting the new Kigamboni city extension. The new berths will allow avoidance of access chanel limitations making it possible to handle 6th generation vessels.

The project includes the construction of a road and rail bridge between Brazzaville in Congo and Kinshasa in the DRC. The project also includes road and rail links in both countries as well as joint border control points (One Stop Border Posts). A border control post will be located at each end of the bridge and will house border control officers. Inspections will only be conducted on one side of the river (i.e. on the departure side). The existing road infrastructure will be extended by 10km to connect the bridge to the two cities. The railway bridge will have a total length of 1 575m and 10 bays divided as follows: 2 bays of 120m, 4 bays of 152m, 2 bays of 242m and two bays of 121.5m. The profile on the other side of the road consists of two unidirectional sidewalks with two lanes of 3m. The total width of the road, including sidewalks, is 16.24 m. The two large cable-stayed spans (242m and 152m), located in the river along the banks, give the bridge a gateway to the capitals. The bridge will be located in Maloukou Trechot, 6km from the city of Maluku in Congo. The site is 55km from the two capitals along the river. The bridge is part of a larger project, the Kinshasa-Ilebo railway project, which aims to improve the rail network in Africa. The larger project is expected to contribute to increased regional trade and accelerate regional integration between Central and Southern Africa. The project is expected to allow for cheaper and faster river crossing by passengers and freight. The beneficiaries of the project will therefore include the two countries whose fisci will benefit from increased trade, the increased presence of domestic and foreign companies in both countries, from private transporters and the economic and social benefits of liberated movement of both populations

The proposed Sambangalou dam project entails the construction of a gravity dam, with a 128 MW capacity, and a 3.8 km3 reservoir. The dam is located in Senegal, 930 km upstream from the mouth of the Gambia river and about 25 km south of Kédougou. The reservoir overlaps Senegal and Guinea. The project now has two components, i.e. Sambangalou Dam and an interconnection transmission line which will link the Sambangalou and Kaleta dams to the electric grid of the four member countries. The project was formerly part of larger OMVG Energy project involving fuoir countries (with Kaleta dam in Guinea and interconnecting power grid), however it split in 2011 after Guinea decided to develop Kaleta dam as a standalone.  

Construction of 365 km Juba-Torit-Kapoeta-Nadapal single cariageway road in South Sudan. The road links with the proposed South Sudan/Kenya OSBP project at Nadapal.

This project forms part of the ELTAM transmission interconnector which connects the power markets of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali. In particular, it involves the reinforcement of the Egypt part of the 340 km / 500 kV Egypt to Libya section from the Mersa Matruh to the Libya border.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project includes the section of 670km of 400kV transmission line from Iringa to Shinyanga via Dodoma and Singida. The design capacity of this section is 2000MW.

Construction of a transmission linethat connects the power networks ofTanzania and Kenya. This projectincludes the section of 414km of400kV transmission line from Singidato Namanga via Arusha. The designcapacity is 2,000MW.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project initially included the section of 400kV, 1134km bidirectional Tanzanian section of the 2,800km ZTK interconnector from Kasama in Zambia to Tunduma-Mbeya-Iringa-Singida-Arusha in Tanzania terminating at Isinya in Kenya. The design capacity of the Tanzania section is 2000MW. The original concept for the ZTK Interconnector was a high voltage 330 kV transmission line going from Pensulo (Zambia) to Nairobi (Kenya) with three connection points in Tanzania (Mbeya, Singida and Arusha). At that time, Tanzania grid was operated at 220 kV. The original concept of the ZTK Interconnector has been replaced, by two interconnections between two national grids: the Kenya-Tanzania Interconnection and the Zambia-Tanzania Interconnection.

Upgrading of the 240 km single carriageway road from Garoua to Boulai to N’Gaoundéré in Cameroon.

The project involves the modernisation of the Dar es Salaam Port, including upgrade to berths 1 to 7, deepening of the harbour, improveing cargo handling and port layout.

The Serenje-Nakonde project road runs in a north eastern direction from Serenje in Zambia's Central Province to Nakonde (at the border post between Zambia and Tanzania) in the Northern Province covering a total distance of 611.5 km. The road is divided in 3 links: Link 1: Serenje to Mpika (238.3 km), Link 2: Mpika to Chinsali (164.6 k), Link 3: Chinsali to Nakonde (208.6 km) The Serenje-Nakonde road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link 15) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 4.

The Serenje-Nakonde project road runs in a north eastern direction from Serenje in Zambia's Central Province to Nakonde (at the border post between Zambia and Tanzania) in the Northern Province covering a total distance of 611.5 km. The road is divided in 3 links: Link 1: Serenje to Mpika (238.3 km), Link 2: Mpika to Chinsali (164.6 k), Link 3: Chinsali to Nakonde (208.6 km) The Serenje-Nakonde road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link 15) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 4.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project includes the section of 905km Zambian section of the 2,800km ZTK interconnector from Kabwe-Pensulo-Nakonde-Kasama in Zambia to Tunduma in Tanzania. The project was envisioned to be implemented in two phases starting with the Kabwe-Pensulo-Kasama-Nakonde section and the second phase would have comprised the Kabwe-Pensulo-Mpika-Kasama section. It will have had a capacity of 500MW, upgradable to 2000MW depending on power demand. The original concept for the ZTK Interconnector was a high voltage 330 kV transmission line going from Pensulo (Zambia) to Nairobi (Kenya) with three connection points in Tanzania (Mbeya, Singida and Arusha). At that time, Tanzania grid was operated at 220 kV. The original concept of the ZTK Interconnector has been replaced, by two interconnections between two national grids: the Kenya-Tanzania Interconnection and the Zambia-Tanzania Interconnection.

This project forms part of the ELTAM transmission interconnector which connects the power markets of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali. In particular, it involves the reinforcement of the Algeria part of the 220 km / 400 kV Algeria to Tunisia section from Cheffia in Algeria to the Tunisia border.

This project forms part of the ELTAM transmission interconnector which connects the power markets of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali. In particular, it involves the reinforcement of the Libya part of the 210 km / 400 kV Libya to Tunisia section from Abou Kamach in Libya to the Tunisia border. It has a power transmission capacity of 1000 MW.

The Serenje-Nakonde project road runs in a north eastern direction from Serenje in Zambia's Central Province to Nakonde (at the border post between Zambia and Tanzania) in the Northern Province covering a total distance of 611.5 km. The road is divided in 3 links: Link 1: Serenje to Mpika (238.3 km), Link 2: Mpika to Chinsali (164.6m), Link 3: Chinsali to Nakonde (208.6 km) The Serenje-Nakonde road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link 15) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 4.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project includes the section of 400kV, 292km Iringa - Kisada - Mbeya transmission line, 122km of 400kV Mbeya - Tunduma transmission line and 4km of 400kV transmission line from Tunduma to Border of Zambia.Â

The project involves the construction of the Kousséré One-Stop Border Post between Cameroon and Chad, on the Douala-Bangui Douala-N Djamena Multimodal Transport Corridor.

This project forms part of the ELTAM transmission interconnector which connects the power markets of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali. In particular, it involves the reinforcement of the Tunisia part of the 220 km / 400 kV Algeria to Tunisia section from the Algeria border to Jendouba in Tunisia.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project includes the 96km Kenyan section of the 2,800km ZTK interconnector, which runs from Arusha in Tanzania to Isinya in Kenya. In Kenya, the line will be linked to the high-voltage direct current interconnector between Kenya and Ethiopia

Construction of Kraké/Sémé Badagry One-Stop Border Post along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor (between Benin and Nigeria).

Construction of Ouidah/Hillacondji/Sanveekondji One-Stop Border Post between Togo and Benin. This part of the project relates specifically to the facilities in Togo.

The Noépé One-Stop Border Post (OSBP) is a key infrastructure project on the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor, located at the Ghana-Togo border. The project involves the construction of a modern, integrated border facility on the Togolese side at Noépé, opposite Aflao in Ghana. The scope includes constructing new administrative buildings, inspection bays, parking areas, and associated infrastructure (water, sanitation, ICT) to facilitate joint border operations. The project is designed to implement the OSBP concept, harmonizing procedures between Ghana and Togo to create a single customs and immigration control point.

Construction of the Garoua Boulai One-Stop Border Post between Cameroon and Central African Republic on the Douala-Bangui Douala-N Djamena Multimodal Transport Corridor.

The project involves the construction of Koutéré One-Stop Border Post between Cameroon and Chad, on the Douala-Bangui Douala-N Djamena Multimodal Transport Corridor.

The project entails the installation of the Zambia section of the 600 km fibre-optic link between Lusaka and Lilongwe: from Lusaka to the border with Malawi.

Construction of 17 km single carriageway road missing links between Abidjan and Grand Bassam (Cote d'Ivore).

The project forms part of the upgrading of the 1,200 km of narrow gauge railway between Abidjan and Ouagadougou. In particular it involves the section in Burkina Fasso, from the border with Ivory Coast to Ouagadougou.

The project involves the construction of a One Stop Border Post between Congo and DRC. Related to this project is the construction of a road/rail bridge between Brazzaville and Kinshasa.

Construction of the Campo One-Stop Border Post between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, which lies on the Douala- Bangui- Douala- N’Djamena Corridor.

Upgrading of the Mali section of the 1,228 km railway to standard gauge between the border with Senegal and Bamako in Mali.

Construction of new SPM Oil Terminal at Dar es Salaam Port (Tanzania).

The project involves the construction of a grade separated flyover for Morogoro Road / Nelson Mandela intersection.

Construction of the Douala Bridge (Cameroon).

Construction of road sections on Douala-N’Gaoundéré-N'Djamena road (Cameroon).

Construction of road sections on Douala-N’Gaoundéré-N'Djamena road (Chad).

This project forms part of the ELTAM transmission interconnector which connects the power markets of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali. In particular, it involves the reinforcement of the Libya part of the 340 km / 500 kV Egypt to Libya section from the Egypt border to Tobruk.

Construction of Elubo/Noe One-Stop Border Post (Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana). The OSBP lies on the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor. OSBP type: juxtaposed.

Upgrading of road from Godomey to Pahou (Benin).

Construction of Kaouara-Niangoloko One-Stop Border Post (Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso).

This project forms part of the ELTAM transmission interconnector which connects the power markets of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali. In particular, it involves the reinforcement of the Tunisia part of the 210 km / 400 kV Libya to Tunisia section from the Libya border to Bouchama in Tunisia.

The project entails the installation of the Malawi section of the 600 km fibre-optic link between Lusaka and Lilongwe: from the Zambia border to Lilongwe.