Talk:Trans-African Highway network

South Sudan
The highway map shows Sudan as a single country. I'm not much for editing pictures, but could someone please fix this? Thanks. Interlaker (talk) 18:19, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Necessity of roads in Africa ?
I added Environmental_impact_of_roads in the see also section. Motivation is that most people live at the coast, so have no benefit of having (much) more roads (paved roads near cities make sense, but not roads cutting trough the entirety of the countries/continent). The money spend is hence not cost-effective and could have been better spend on other issues, hereby saving lives and reducing the environmental damage. It's a shame the UN has participated in this project, one would assume they would have researched the need first. See also Talk:Environmental_impact_of_roads KVDP (talk) 14:52, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Most people in Africa live at the coast? Really? I would be very impressed if you could provide a source for that. bobrayner (talk) 11:56, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Old debate I see but worth adding on.

That Africans are concentrated at the coast is not true. I come from a village in South Africa called Zebediela/Sibitiela (800km from the nearest coast). I can state for sure that there are people everywhere around the continent. At the coast as well yes, but inland too.

In South Africa, you hardly drive 100km without bumping into a small village (or not small).

An easy proof of my above statement is to look at the populations of landlocked countries, which Africa has a lot. They have people just as much.

Roads are important infrastructure to connect all these villages while the infrastructure is a source of economic activity itself: construction and maintenance.

Another benefit of the road infrastructure is to attract cars, by the villagers themselves and outsiders alike.

People are unlikely to buy a cell phone while there is no infrastructure: cellular network. Same with roads.

Without proper infrastructure (not just roads), economic potential of any society is stunned. Rangoane Mogosoane (talk) 19:13, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Network Revamp (New Ideas)
I’m currently completely rewriting and improving the entire network. Please place any ideas below if you have any TapticInfo (talk) 20:31, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

The Trans-African Highway network comprises transcontinental road projects in Africa being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Unionin conjunction with regional international communities. They aim to promote trade and alleviate poverty in Africa through highwayinfrastructure development and the management of road-based trade corridors. The total length of the nine highways in the network is 56,683 km (35,221 mi). 62.254.9.22 (talk) 07:59, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Trans African highway connects
where to where 105.29.165.230 (talk) 07:55, 12 August 2023 (UTC)