The Great Trans-African Highway project announced (to generalized laughter)

[I found this on Faceberg.] The Trans-African Highway Network, Africa’s most ambitious road project, is a pan-African initiative aiming to integrate nine major highways, covering a total of 56,683 kilometers. The route will pass through South Africa , Kenya , Uganda , Nigeria , Cameroon , Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Senegal , Chad , Djibouti , Ethiopia , Sudan , Botswana , Angola , Zambia , Namibia , Zimbabwe , Mozambique , Tanzania , the Central African Republic

Peter Bischoff
In good old South African English “KAK’
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Jae Bee
I love going to Africa seeing so many black people all at one time. From the Middle East to South Africa from Ghana to Ethiopia.
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Ashley Callaghan
Is China paying for it?
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Clifford Dudley
How many changes between right-hand traffic and left-hand traffic are involved?
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Ulrik X Ylva
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It’s more dynamic than that. Some use all of the road, if it’s convenient and possible. Some takes some grim risks and manage. But it works, as good as ours, and everybody’s sharing the same space for different reasons at the same time. It would never work in my country. It’s amazing and tough, and can be deadly.
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Reynolds
Yes, something like that, but as long as it works, and everybody survive
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David Settle
Clifford Dudley in most parts they just drive, there are no lines painted on dirt roads
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Attila Szabo
Clifford Dudley if they build it like in the map, it is only 2
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Jonathan Lumb
Clifford Dudley a week next Thursday
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Hilary Albutt
René Giesbertz and Any ex British colony…
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Daniel Townsend
Clifford Dudley it’s Africa — every man for himself. Works better if your truck is bigger than the others.
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John O’Neil
Clifford Dudley that makes things a bit interesting doesn’t it
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Shawn Aaron Caldwell
Clifford Dudley whatever you do, don’t ask an American this question, they definitely don’t understand the logistics to how to drive on a highway, and it’s simple mathematics.
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Josefa Merino
Clifford Dudley what, you would not follow the signs if they said, “drive on the right or left”?
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Adam Geldhof
If the map on the bottom is accurate, the highway will go nowhere near the country of Chad or Uganda, but WILL go through Morocco, Mauritania, Liberia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana and a few others that weren’t mentioned.
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Brian Gatward
Never happen…they will loot the funds
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Alan Lewis
It will never be built due to the corruption in African countries.
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Christi Strydom
Africa can’t maintain existing roads, never mind building new ones. Africa breaks down, does not build.
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Justin Kieffer
I bet it’s funded by China and built by China and then all the African companies will default on their loans and then China will own that too.
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Dawud Ismail Sulayman
what a magnificent concept, and a blessed co-operative from all participating governent leaders. just what africa needed. KEEP THE CO-OP ALIVE (UNIFIED) FOR ALL OF US WHO LOVE OUR DEAR AFRICA. THIS PROJECT SHINED GOD’S BLESSING ON ALL TO SEE. I’M EXTREMELY PROUD OF YOU ALL, MEMBER STATES…DON’T STOP HERE, CONTINUE BUILDING AFRICA, THE “GREATEST CONTINENT ON EARTH!” AFRICA HAS FINALLY ARRIVED, AT IT’S RENAISANCE AND AWAKENING!✍️
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Jason Killian
People will never leave the South African section if this were to happen. It will be great for the drug and ivory trade.
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Barry O’Connor
And we are expected to feed their starving children! Priorities people priorities!
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Tom French
It will turn to ruble
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David Mingay
I don’t think so, there are better ways to use AI. Africa needs schools before this.
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Dominic Gibson
Central Africa is totally ignored. The sea lanes already provide these transport routes
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Selang Agro Farm
These highway became a reality if fighting among African stop, n focus on economic n sosial development. The chinese n Russian can help for the economic development n upgrading the security.
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Graham Perry
Africa needs to get it’s priorities in order , i.e. clean water supply to all
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Steven Snith
I can only imagine the BS toll booths and check points in certain Countries along the way.
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Warren Wilson
I struggle to see something like this being built over so many countries when some of the countries involved can’t stop there own tribal / religious fighting in there own countries.
To expect cooperation between them all is probably a doomed dream.
But good luck
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Ronald Wesby
This highway Should be an African Marshall-Plan. This Structure should be just the beginning, every young Male in Africa should be Employed at a Standard wage to Construct Continental African Infrastructure.✊✌
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Ed Correa
Instead of a road they should invest on a railroads.
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Dag Korsnes
Who is paying for this?
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Adriaan Louw
The South African part is more or less built. The eastern side is the N1 highway (Cape Town to Beit Bridge to Zimbabwe) and the western side is the N7 highway (Cape Town to Vioolsdrift to Namibia).
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George Koster
Just what Africa needs.
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Martin Phillips
It would be ecological if a railway line. This road if ever completed would contribute significantly to increased pollution.
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Charlie Oldham
Transport network and public transport has got to be crucial without it it’s held back in every way
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Iftikhar Khan
Will this network, miss any of the African countries?
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Karsten Odgaard
It never passes Uganda on that map
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Benoit Espagnol
Who Will pay for that?
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Thomas Austin James
This concept scares the world… If the continent can unite and build this they can build and do anything…. They already have the natural resources. They have the only real growing population in earth. They have the Intellectual capital as seen in major universities all over the planet. Imagine if they could find the unity to harness it all. What if they took an AFRICA first mindset… Like the Chinese and Americans. That scares all the old colonial powers… No more Africa to exploit… And what if AFRICA returned all the negative energy that has been poured into the continent back at the sources… I say good luck and I can wait to see the future
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Beverley Gray Mace
There is so much corruption in South Africa, that the money will be stolen before the project gets started.
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Chris Shaw
The Victoria’s could not do it with the railway so I unfortunately doubt the current disparate African government will manage this especially as most of the route is easily served by shipping routes!
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Philip Chen
I find this odd.
Is there anybody with some knowledge/experience that could explain to me?:
It doesn’t look like this highway goes from/to anywhere with a direct route, so it seems like if it is the faster route, people will end up driving extra miles.
It kinda looks more like a linking network of already existing coastal highways.
Is there a usage based reason for this approach? Or is this more of an aspirational project?
Thanks
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Andrew Harper
And bent police collecting “tolls” at choke points for their personal fund, followed by local gunmen with FA to do except wait to rob the next hapless tourist at the end of a a rusty AK47….
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Narishaya Madrigal Green
The local corruption will be about 20 times the price of the initial project.
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Justin Gries
This will make regional conflicts (wars) at least 36% more efficient!
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David Buttle
They can’t maintain the roads they had.
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John Mills
Africa will always be corrupt and broke.
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Magdalena Beata Arciszewska
And the best of all: it will never happen
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Liviu Stefanescu
Thus, the whole of Africa becomes the property of China.
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Antony Parvin
Great but when if ever will it be completed… probably never.
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Nicholas Lawrence
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This is what western powers are against. A united Africa.
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Thomas Mooney
Great now i dont have to donate to charities in africa
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Robert Archbold
What century is it expected to be finished?
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Filip Van Looy
I’m fine as long as those countries finance the project themselves
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Peter Bischoff
Not in twenty lifetimes. Can’t even maintain their town infrastructure.
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Trudie Groenewald
Will love to do this trip when the high way’s finish ❤️
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Ngiafon Emmanuel
Let’s do it.
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Muhamed Amin Hajji Ali
All lies..africa will never unite since they hv biased hearts towards themselves.
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Tshepo Matsheding
In Africa, there are several countries where drivers keep left and pass on the right. Here are some of them:
*Countries that drive on the left-hand side*
1. *South Africa*: Known for its stunning coastline, vibrant cities, and world-class wine regions.
2. *Botswana*: A wildlife lover’s paradise, with the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park, and the Makgadikgadi Pans.
3. *Lesotho*: A mountainous country with a unique culture and breathtaking scenery.
4. *Mauritius*: An island paradise with luxurious resorts, pristine beaches, and crystal-clear waters.
5. *Namibia*: A land of stunning natural beauty, with the Namib Desert, Etosha National Park, and the Skeleton Coast.
6. *Seychelles*: An archipelago of 115 islands off the coast of East Africa, known for its stunning beaches and crystal-clear waters.
7. *Swaziland*: A small country with a rich culture and history, known for its stunning natural beauty and wildlife.
8. *Zambia*: A country with a rich history and culture, known for its stunning natural beauty, wildlife, and the Victoria Falls.
9. *Zimbabwe*: A country with a rich history and culture, known for its stunning natural beauty, wildlife, and the Victoria Falls.
These countries were formerly under British colonial rule, which is why they adopted the left-hand traffic system.
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Alf Harding
Very funny and entertaining story – the bottom part will not happen @ all due to Ain’t No Construction
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Pippy Cannon
Agree china now owns everything in once wonderful continent of Africa
What does China give back?
Nothing is my guess
Hullo is this just colonialism in the next century???
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Bauld G. Kobra
Truly advanced countries invest in high-speed rail and mass transit, not highways. The gasoline-powered internal combustion engine is an obsolete technology from the 20th century. We are a quarter of the way through the 21st and our so-called leaders are only now moving to implement a transportation network from the 1900s. This lack of vision – coupled with corruption – is why Africa remains the least developed continent.
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Ricardo de Barros
So what is the best route if I want to go from Egypt to Nigeria?
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Robert Cole
Highway? Why on Earth don’t they put a modern train rail??
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Charles Lester Raffaut
Not needed. Africans like walking on dirt roads
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Nik Blundell
Not so sure it goes through Mozambique?
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Daniel Comyn
Start off in fixing and maintaining the existing infra-structure (what’s left of it!)like sewage,water,electricity,millions of kilometres of pot-holed roads,collapsed health system,long drop toilets at rural schools..the list is endless before turning one sod of soil on these dreams.Once you have fixed your own back yard up, then you can help your neighbours fix theirs.Then start on your own street and move to fix the next.Once you fix and maintain the foundations the rest will follow.
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Lucille Walke
Possibly good and negative consequences for the nations it’ll go through.
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Ronald Moncada
It can be done African countries!!!
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Ama Dankwa Derban
Why does this list keep leaving Ghana and its neighbours out??? How are you getting from Senegal to Nigeria please
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Koos DelaRey
Must be going past phala-phala and nkandla for sure…
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Ross Simpson
Africa is tooooo huge geographically for this to happen. And huge rivers, mtns and a desert.
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Chris Ramirez
So will it ever happen?
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Charles Shields
I do not see Ghana listed, but clearly on this map it is going through Ghana
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Oleg Lankin
I wonder who’s building it. And those who say it will never be built haven’t seen China’s highway system and how many thousand miles they build in a year. And don’t be mad that it won’t be property of the USA.
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Catherine Bres
This would be a amazing road trip and if safe would bring so much tourism across the whole of Africa.
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Warren Paar
If they were to attempt this… There would be over 13000 cases of corruption, it would take 40 years longer than anticipated. Cost 8 x more than it should. When completed, it would be a dirt road that only went half way.
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J Van Den Belt
So it’s 16,000 km LONGER than the circumference of the entire earth?
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Abdullah Abdullah
Looks really good, unifies all states together….
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Mugume Amooti Kalyegira
We need a railway line system instead of this road system.
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Obidike Ojii
Although it will crash one day and gold will come back. The real value of bitcoin is how much gold you can exchange for. It’s not how much usd/euro (fiat money) you can exchange for another fiat (bitcoin/etherium)
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Tilo Grätz
It would not Pass Republic of Benin??
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Johan Matthysen
Money waisting project, it will never be a continuous running road, here in my area it’s difficult to find 40 kilos without potholes
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Brian Randall
A pirates paradise.
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Lucio Tillicks
including security management will be a challenge, not possible at all. Leaders in the African continent will subsidize their own pockets. China will own this as usual, as we don’t have the magnitude to construct or handle a project like this. Would be great idea if executed.
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Iain Robert Hamilton
Good news for those who want to row to the west lol easier to get to the coast.
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Bruce James
Bloody China trying to make inroads in other countries at what cost
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Tshepo Matsheding
Here are the African countries where drivers keep right and pass on the left:
*West Africa*
1. *Benin*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
2. *Burkina Faso*: A landlocked country with a vibrant culture and stunning natural beauty.
3. *Cape Verde*: An island nation off the coast of West Africa, known for its stunning beaches and vibrant culture.
4. *Côte d’Ivoire*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
5. *Gambia*: A small country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
6. *Guinea*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
7. *Guinea-Bissau*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
8. *Liberia*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
9. *Mali*: A landlocked country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
10. *Mauritania*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
11. *Niger*: A landlocked country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
12. *Senegal*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
13. *Sierra Leone*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
14. *Togo*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
*North Africa*
1. *Algeria*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
2. *Egypt*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
3. *Libya*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
4. *Morocco*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
5. *Tunisia*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
*Central Africa*
1. *Angola*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
2. *Cameroon*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
3. *Central African Republic*: A landlocked country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
4. *Chad*: A landlocked country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
5. *Democratic Republic of the Congo*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
6. *Republic of the Congo*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
7. *Equatorial Guinea*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
8. *Gabon*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
*East Africa*
1. *Burundi*: A landlocked country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
2. *Comoros*: An island nation off the coast of East Africa, known for its stunning beaches and vibrant culture.
3. *Djibouti*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
4. *Eritrea*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
5. *Ethiopia*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
6. *Rwanda*: A landlocked country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
7. *Somalia*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
8. *South Sudan*: A landlocked country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
9. *Sudan*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty.
10. *Tanzania*: A country with a rich cultural heritage and stunning coastline.
These countries were formerly under French, Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese colonial rule, which is why they adopted the right-hand traffic system.
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John Woolley
That’s a ring road.
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Kevin Sheehan
Wouldn’t drive that on a dare. Plenty of good, but too many variables.
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Tshepo Matsheding
Some countries you’ll keep right pass left some you keep left pass right
We gonna crush into each other hear
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Izak Fouché
Might want to work on the corruption in Africa especially with politicians!
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David Verigan
Plus some countries drive on the left side based on British history of occupation (eg South Africa (ZA)). Others on the right hand side. Figure that out.
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ML Macé
border between Algeria and Morocco is CLOSED. Period.
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Chris Kontogiannatos
Perfect for local ambushes
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Luciano Ghalleb
Long live the united states of Africa
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Elizabeth Bosman
I, for one, am very excited about this. I hope I will travel up on that High way soon.
Morocco, here I come
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Stephen Smith
And who will pay and maintain such a dream.
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Julius Julius
This won’t happen anytime soon,our African leaders are so self centered,if you don’t believe it,come to my country kenya and see for yourself the type of looting there is
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Alexander Mejuto
And who’s suppose to built it considering they’re all heading to germany for free wellfare
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Khalfan MA Bin-Ayoub
They should build a railway. It would serve two purposes: transporting heavy loads (such as containers, woods, iron ore, copper, gravel, cement, fleets of cars—you name it) and carrying passengers.
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Jules Moles
Lol can see they’re staying well clear of the Zulus and so they should because if there a road for them they’ll own the rest of Africa within a decade….Haha…those spears are sharp…
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Miguel R. MacDonald
If it gets built, I hope it’s done with African money, African labour, and with the future progress of African in mind. Do not sell this to non-African interests looking to create more debt infrastructure.
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Daniel De Lorenzis
Well done great vision hopefully railways will also be connected one day
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Paul Achong
Congratulations are in order!
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William Cardwell
Musk’s robots will pave the way. He will buy a country and rename it Robotu. Then impregnate his robot wife and have little baby roberts.
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Philip Leahy
The African autobahn, we have that in chicago lol
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Jon Lomøy
Will take a few years to complete – but dreams are important
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Patrick Mikey A Peterkin
I guess Africa is now corrupt as the USA
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Beverley Gray Mace
If this was going to be a railway line, I could get very excited about it.
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Paul Rock Freestone
Is this satire?
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Kevin Smith
Sounds like a safe road trip.
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Jeremy G Landau
Would be a beautiful journey in peacetime
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Stephne Ashworth
That needs to be a railways line. Get trucks off the road. It is not sustainable.
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Pyry Meskanen
I’ve been to 23 African countries. Good luck with your project but I can give a little hint. Usually it takes 2-3 to cross any border… Try the European Union “borderless” style if somehow possible.
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Olly Perry
This is simply to make it easier to remove resources dressed up as major progress. Nothing is for free or for ordinary people’s benefit.
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Monpere Whaheed Kamara
Things like this are great. But we’ll have to be colonised or enslaved again for this to happen. Cuz African leaders loot our wealth to live gawdy lives with their relatives and friends. And accumulate wealth in Western countries. Other Africans runaway to live in western African and they come to walk on the heads and stomachs of Africans who never migrated to western countries or have deplorabe financial status. So, this road project is a pure fantasy.
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Nicholas Simon Gape
This is absolute BOLLOX❗❗
There is not enough money in Africa to pay the bribes to have this built, let alone buy the skill and materials to create it❗
This will simply indebt an entire continent to the Uighur murdering slitty eyes under the Belt & Road Initiative .
Of course it will begin as a loan, then, when the bent African politicians have raided their treasuries and run away with the cash, the population will, once more, be enslaved.
Plus ca change, c’est la meme chose ❗❗
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Ford Io
All those countries have wars and will be constant toad block shutting the whole highway
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Jonathan Hill
why bother with such huge infrastructure when there are hardly any cars.
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Stewart Lee
Could call it The Robbery Road?
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Ron Bryan
Tell them to p off
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Linda Salamon
Wise, to stay out of the Horn…
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Maurie Schull
This will never happen it will be like the Bruce highway here in Queensland it will never be fixed
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Freddie Parsons
Is this the highway China built?,
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Allen Hayned
Great for commercial purposes
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William Carr
How much is this going to cost the UK taxpayers i wonder!
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Pravin Pema
Start counting the potholes
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Ann Hawke
Ever heard of Hoffer!
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Rod Packham
What about some infrastructure and homes for people
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David Aubrey
Pipe dream — who’ll pay? Not Africa, their money is all in Swiss Banks
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John McWilliams
This is a Chinese Belt and Road initiative especially given the unstable governments and hostilities in the North East and North West
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Paul Smitherman
I wonder how much money will find its way into the wrong hands.
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Moses Gachari
Tricky part is connecting in over taxed Kenya
Where Hyenas are waiting to gobble or swallow with over rated land Tenders…
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Steven Merle
The Eastern section should branch out to the coast.
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Ger Bauritius
So when that’s done, then can they take care of themselves? They will then not need any care from Europe or USA any more?