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Tripoli–Cape Town Highway

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regions, and it would do the most to stimulate trade which currently has to go by air or sea. The central section is however a 'missing link', and the planned alignment between CAR and ROC would pass through some of the most remote and difficult terrain and rainforests of the
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which would connect with the Trans-Sahara Highway. Coupled with lawlessness and the potential for instability in the Libya-Chad border regions, the northern section is likely to be the last to be developed and may be a couple of decades away from completion.
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African Development Bank/United Nations Economic Commission For Africa: "Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links: Volume 2: Description of Corridors".
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between Tripoli and Ndjamena, for which the Trans-Sahara Highway further west would probably find more usage and which provides an alternative north–south route.
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border, meanwhile paving the rest is under way. From the south, traffic going to West Africa would branch off in Yaoundé onto the western section of the
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basin. This alignment has the potential for an enormous environmental impact on relatively untouched forest within a number of nature reserves.
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It is the central section between northern Angola and Cameroon which is most needed because it would provide the first paved link between the
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era, but it is now recognized that it would continue to Cape Town. It may still be referred to in documents as the
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South Africa was not originally included in the route which was first planned in the
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Paving of existing roads is required in northern Angola but from Ngage through
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It is meant to be the second link between North and Southern Africa, with the
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an alternative mainly paved route is also available through Pointe-Noire and
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can be used to any extent. Currently only desert tracks run from southern
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through the EN140 and follows south through to the EN120 and enters the
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highway. The highway continues south until it interchanges with the
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An alternative alignment for the road has been proposed between
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is not a high priority in its northern section across the
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on the other hand is an important regional road in the
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Index

Tripoli – Cape Town Highway
Trans-African Highway 3 shield

TAH 1
Tripoli
Libya
TAH 5
TAH 6
Ndjamena
Chad
TAH 8
Yaoundé
Cameroon
TAH 9
Angola
TAH 4
Cape Town
South Africa
Transport in
TAH 2
TAH 4
Trans-African Highway
road
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
African Development Bank
African Union
Apartheid
Cairo-Cape Town Highway
East Africa

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