The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor, West Africa’s $15bn SUPERHIGHWAY set to begin in January 2024: The first tenders for a 1,028km motorway between #Abidjan and #Lagos, the capitals of the Ivory Coast and Nigeria, will be published in January, an official from the #Ecowas group of West African states has said.

He said the highway was approved by a meeting of heads of state, and that experts from the countries the road will pass through – Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, #Benin and Côte d’Ivoire – had convened to assess its physical, economic and social aspects.

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Nice initiative but a rail option, though costlier, would have been exploited.
Travelling by rail should be the top item on the ecowas agenda by now.