N'Djamena-Djibouti Highway
The N'Djamena-Djibouti highway connecting the capital of Chad ( N'Djamena ) with Djibouti and the Sahel with the Indian Ocean . It is part of the Trans-African Highways system , which is operated jointly by the UN / ECA , the African Development Bank and the African Union .
The line crosses the Sudanese region of Darfur , where expansion of the line has come to a standstill due to the Darfur conflict .
The highway is a total of 4,219 kilometers. Less than half of it is paved and much of the road is in poor condition. In Ethiopia it leads through mountainous areas, which also makes it difficult to expand.
On the section between Wad Madani in Sudan and Werota in Ethiopia, the route runs together with the Cairo-Cape Town Highway . In the west it connects to the Dakar-N'Djamena-Highway and connects with it to a 8715 km long east-west route through the African continent . The route roughly follows a route planned by the French colonial power , which should serve to control the entire region - efforts that later led to the Faschoda crisis .
Web links
- African Development Bank , United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Ed.): Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links. Volume 2: Description of Corridors . here section HIGHWAY 6 - N'DJAMENA - DJIBOUTI (PDF document from p. 142), Stockholm, August 14, 2003. online at www.afdb.org (English)