ECOWAS dubbed AfCFTA transport infrastructure powerhouse as AfDB secures $15.6bn investment for construction of Lagos-Abidjan highway

Starting starting from “Bingerville”, a suburb of Abidjan and ending at Mile 2 (Eric Moore), in Lagos and a flagship project of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), the Lagos-Abidjan highway interconnects the capital cities of five Western African States including Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, covering approximately 1,028 km and eight border crossings as a major part of the Trans African Highway Network within the ECOWAS subregion.

In a statement issued by AfDB recently, the Abidjan Lagos project is a key regional trade and transport corridor that interconnects some of the largest and most economically dynamic cities in Africa, Abidjan, Accra, Cotonou, Lomé and Lagos.

It also noted that the corridor links other corridors along the north-south axis and interconnects the landlocked countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad.

“The corridor interconnects the most densely populated and economically active parts of the sub-region, intersecting with a rail network and major ports/airports.

“The transport sector in West Africa plays a key role in the economic development of the region and generates about five to eight per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

“This remains cognisant of the fact that an efficient regional transport network is an enabling infrastructure required to promote regional trade and socio-economic development, inter alia.

“The Abidjan –Lagos transport corridor currently supports approximately 75 per cent of sub-regional trade activities, making it one of the most important transport infrastructure that will help to facilitate intra African trade under the AfCFTA in the sub region.

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