AfDB NEWS & EVENTS
At the Ivorian-Malian border, work on the road corridor between Côte d'Ivoire and Mali is almost complete. But even before its completion, the infrastructure is already relieving transporters and neighboring populations in both countries.
The Bamako-San Pedro Corridor, whose works were launched in 2015 for completion scheduled for June 2021, has been funded to the tune of US $ 233 million by the African Development Bank, including US $ 198 million from its window. concessional rate loan, the African Development Fund. The book is part of the implementation of the Program of roads development and transport facilitation on the Bamako corridor Zantiébougou-Boundiali San Pedro.
Work on the Zantiébougou-Ivorian border route (140 km) on the Mali side has been completed and provisionally delivered. On the Ivory Coast side, the works of the Kani-Fadjadougou section (lot 1) have been finalized and those of lot 2 (Fadiadougou-Boundiali section) are 86% completed. The two lots represent a distance of 135 km.
According to an execution and results report (EER) published on October 27 by the Bank, the impact of the project is already being felt on the beneficiary populations with regard to the volume of traffic on the roads completed or in progress. Classes.
Travel times, which were six hours in 2014 on each of the sections going from Zantiébougou to the border with Côte d'Ivoire and from Boundiali to Kani, were now reduced to between 1 hour 40 minutes and 2 hours last May. . This represents a total gain of $ 3.6 million per year for carriers.
According to the report, the processing time for container traffic at the port of San-Pedro, Côte d'Ivoire, will drop to three days compared to ten days in 2014, once the interconnection of customs IT systems, the establishment of a single port window at the port of San-Pedro and an electronic tracking system for goods and vehicles along this corridor will have been implemented. In addition, the transit time of a freight truck at the border between Côte d'Ivoire and Mali is expected to drop from a full day to around three hours after the construction of the single border checkpoint.
As for the operating cost of three-axle vehicles, it has been cut in half, from $ 1.8 per kilometer in 2014 to almost 90 cents. The rural access index in the project intervention area is close to 60% in 2020, which concerns, for half, women, against 25% in 2015. This index measures the proportion of the rural population under two kilometers of a passable road in all seasons.
By the end of the project, four centers and six multifunctional platforms dedicated to women will be built. In addition, five schools, five health centers and two bus stations will be renovated, as well as five local markets and a border cattle market.
The project also provides for the construction of twenty boreholes (ten per country), managed 100% by women. Ten solar lighting systems will be installed, ten processing tool kits and intermediate means of transporting agricultural products will be provided to the populations, 80% of which will be women. Twenty tricycle vehicles and four ambulances for transporting sick and pregnant women will be delivered to ten health centers. Finally, around 200 kilometers of rural tracks will be rehabilitated in various localities on both sides of the two countries.
"At the end of the works, the project will notably allow an increase in the volume of trade crossing the land borders between Côte d'Ivoire and Mali from 59,200 tonnes to 392,400 tonnes, ie a growth rate of 34%" , concludes the report of the African Development Bank.
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