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AfricaRail is a project to link the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge railway systems of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin and Togo. A future proposal is to link Mali, Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana—which have different gauges—to the system.
Description
[edit]AfricaRail is a project that proposes to link the railway systems of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin and Togo.[1][2] These are all 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge.[citation needed]
A future stage is proposed to link Mali, Senegal, which are also 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge; Nigeria and Ghana have a different narrow gauge of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) but are converting to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in).[citation needed]
History
[edit]- 2015
Various links.[3]
- West African rail loop of 2740 km.
Abidjan to 
Ouagadougou line.- proposed new 1000mm gauge line linking
Niger and 
Parakou in Benin - rehabilitation of the existing line from Parakou to port of Cotonou in Benin.
- new link to
Lomé in Togo.
On 8 April 2019 Ghana's Ministry of Railways Development reached an agreement with GERC to construct the 340 kilometres (210 mi) Tema - Accra - Koforidua - Kumasi eastern line.
In 2020 the government of Ghana ordered new standard gauge rail equipment,[4] and the Ghana Eastern SG line was approved.[5]
In 2022, the businessman Jeremie Taieb became the Head of the Strategic Steering Committee, in order to finance the project with international donors.[citation needed]
In April 2025 a standard gauge (1435mm) "Sahel Railway" connecting the landlocked countries of 
Mali, 
Burkina Faso and 
Niger was announced. This railway would be paid for by nationalisation of Gold, Uranium and Cotton industries in these three Sahel countries and also remittencies from national disaspera. [6]/
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "RWG Chairman speaks in Lomé". Rail Working Group (The 2001 Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment). 7 December 2006. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
- ^ Kuwonu, Franck (December 2014). "West Africa: New railway network aims to boost inter-regional trade". Africa Renewal. United Nations. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ "Abidjan – Ouagadougou enhancement launched". www.railwaygazette.com. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ SG equipment 30 June 2020 www.railjournal.com, accessed 6 August 2023
- ^ Burroughs, David (8 April 2019). "Ghana's standard-gauge eastern line approved". International Railway Journal: Africa. Simmons-Boardman Publishing, Inc. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ Sahel Railway
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