INFRASTRUCTURE (Senegal), INFRASTRUCTURE

Roads
Senegal has a road network of about 14,500 km, of which 4,200 km are paved. Various projects are under way to build or renovate paved roads at a national (Mbour-Kaolack, Tambacounda-Bakel, Bignona-Diouloulou) and international level (with Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry and Gambia). East-west rivers and estuaries cutting into Senegal and Gambia pose a significant impediment to national and international land transport on a north-south axis. President Abdoulaye Wade has attempted to organise the building of bridges on the Gambia and Senegal rivers. In May 2003, Senegalese authorities announced that Japan would finance the building of a bridge between Senegal and Mauritania at Rosso. The bridge on the Gambia is all the more important in the context of the separatist violence in Casamance. In May 2003, an agreement was signed with the Gambian government towards this end but progress has been undermined by the tempestuous relations between the two countries. In September 2005, for example, Senegalese truckers blocked the river ferry crossing for weeks in protest at Gambian increases in fares.

Railways
As one of West Africa's most industrialised countries, Senegal has a reasonably well developed railway system. The system was originally part of the French Federal West African Railway Authority before transfer to the Mali Federation in 1960. The disintegration of the Mali Federation later that year caused the division of the former Dakar-Niger system into two networks. Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer du Sénégal (SNCS) was established in 1989 as successor to the former RCFS. An independent semi-public corporation, it failed to improve the situation and the railway was subject to a long privatisation process. In October 2003, Transrail, a Franco-Canadian consortium of Canac and Getma, signed a 25-year contract with a five-year XOF35 billion (about USD50 million) investment plan funded by loans from the World Bank and other investors.

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Publication Title Sentinel Security Assessment - West Africa
Publication date Jan 08, 2008
Section INFRASTRUCTURE
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