African Development Bank Group

50 years of supporting transport systems in Africa

From 1967 to 2016

450
transport projects financed
30 billion
USD of loans and grants
450 million africans
benefiting from improved transport systems

40,000Km
of main roads have been paved
30 airports terminals have been built
or expanded
2,030
Tunisia
2,700
Morocco Algeria

14 countries received support to

improve their railway systems 16 ports terminals have been built
or expanded 760

Libya Egypt

WEST AFRICA
Benin Sierra Leone Eritrea Morocco
USD 485M lent (13 projects) USD 147M lent (6 projects) USD 10M lent (1 project) USD 2,700M lent (14 projects) Mauritania
760 km of roads paved (70km urban) 300 km of roads paved Material for road construction A major highway built 120
Cotonou port extended 4M beneficiaries financed 6,000 km of roads strengthened 90 Mali
4M beneficiaries 7 airport terminals built or modernized Cape Verde Niger
Togo Ethiopia 290 km of railway built 388
Chad
Burkina Faso USD 420M lent (10 projects) USD 1,380M lent (17 projects)
Nador Port financed
18M beneficiaries 262 Eritrea
USD 616M lent (12 projects) 630 km of roads paved 2,320 km of roads paved Sudan 10
1,150 km of roads paved Lom port expanded Addis-Ababa Airport and Ethiopian Senegal 640 300
12M beneficiaries 5M beneficiaries Airlines financed Mauritania 50
40M beneficiaries USD 90M lent (4 projects)
490 km of roads paved 616
Cape Verde CENTRAL AFRICA Gambia 200
USD 120M lent (6 projects) Kenya and a major bridge built
200,000 beneficiaries
Burkina 110 Djibouti
144 km of roads paved USD 1,780M lent (22 projects) Faso Nigeria
A port & an airport constructed Cameroon 1,720 km of roads paved Guinea- 131 Guinea 485
200,000 beneficiaries USD 1,740M lent (15 projects) Major urban road projects Tunisia Bissau Benin Somalia
1,540 km of roads paved in Nairobi and Mombasa USD 2,030M lent (14 projects) 284
Douala port & airport expanded Nairobi airport equiped A major highway built 525 South Sudan 40
Cte d'Ivoire Rail network Financed 20M beneficiaries 5,300 km of roads strengthened
1,740
Central
USD 1,300M lent (9 projects) 18M beneficiaries Enfidha airport built Sierra 147 Cameroon African Republic
10 1,380
1,470 km of roads paved (80 km urban)
Rwanda Rail Network modernized Leone Ethiopia
and two bridges built
6M beneficiaries
Central African Republic USD 580M lent (13 projects) 8M beneficiaries 860 420 80
USD 80M lent (3 projects) 800 km of roads paved Liberia 391 Ghana
300 km of roads paved 1,300
Gambia
USD 200M lent (8 projects)
500,000 beneficiaries
7M beneficiaries
SOUTHERN AFRICA Cte Togo 870
Seychelles divoire Uganda
Uganda
60 km of roads paved
and a major bridge built Chad USD 20M lent (1 project)
Botswana 150 Democratic
USD 300M lent (8 projects) USD 250M lent (6 projects)
A port & an airport expanded
700 km of roads paved
Mah airport expanded 890 km of roads paved Congo Republic 1,780
1.2M beneficiaries
5M beneficiaries
100,000 beneficiaries Gaborone airport extended
Sao Tom & Prncipe 40 of the Congo Kenya
1M beneficiaries
Ghana Congo Somalia
400
580 Rwanda
USD 860M lent (14 projects) USD 400M lent (6 projects) USD 40M lent (2 projects) Lesotho Equatorial Guinea 880
1,060
590 km of roads paved
5 airports improved
380 km of roads paved 1,300km of roads paved USD 224M lent (11 projects) Gabon 560 Burundi
Investments in air, rail and inland water traffic 500,000 beneficiaries 500 km of roads paved
2M beneficiaries 5M beneficiaries Maseru airport built
2M beneficiaries
Guinea Democratic Republic South Sudan 20
USD 284M lent (9 projects)
957 km of roads paved
of the Congo USD 10M lent (1 project) Madagascar Seychelles
USD 1,060M lent (14 projects) Capacity building and studies USD 680M lent (7 projects) 1,580
Conakry port expanded
1M beneficiaries
640 km of roads paved 1,000 km of roads paved
14M beneficiaries
Tanzania
Major Air security project
& Railway rehabilitation Sudan
Guinea-Bissau USD 50M lent (2 projects)
Angola Comoros
USD 131M lent (5 projects)
18M beneficiaries
8 bridges built Malawi
Rail sector supported USD 560M lent (13 projects) 560 50
230 km of roads paved
An airport extended
Equatorial Guinea 1M beneficiaries 850 km of roads paved Malawi
USD 150M lent (3 projects) Lilongwe airport expanded
500,000 beneficiaries 550
30 km of roads paved 240km of railway built
Bata airport financed Tanzania or rehabilitated
Liberia 500,000 beneficiaries USD 1,580M lent (18 projects) 11M beneficiaries
Zambia
USD 391M lent (6 projects) 2,230 km of roads paved
360 km of roads paved Gabon Public transport in Dar es Salaam
Mauritius South Africa Mozambique

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2M beneficiaries USD 880M lent (5 projects) Lac Victoria development USD 540M lent (3 projects)
project (multinational) USD 60M lent (4 projects) 170 km of roads paved
600 km of roads paved

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Mali 1M beneficiaries 27M beneficiaries 40 km of roads paved Railway freight transport supported Zimbabwe 920
USD 388M lent (8 projects)
500,000 beneficiaries 1M beneficiaries
680
Mauritius
280
Uganda

Mad
900 km of roads paved Mozambique 60
9M beneficiaries EAST AFRICA USD 870M lent (15 projects)
930 km of roads paved
USD 920M lent (12 projects)
1,950 km of roads paved
Swaziland Botswana
Burundi Support to Rift Valley railways 640 km of rail construction
USD 250M lent (6 projects)
Niger USD 560M lent (14 projects) 16M beneficiaries and rehabilitation
220 km of roads paved
1M beneficiaries Road project < to USD 100M Namibia 250
USD 262M lent (8 projects) 680 km of roads paved A port terminal built (Nacala)
912 km of roads paved Bujumbura airport expanded, 9M beneficiaries
3M beneficiaries Road project > to USD 100M 470
a shipyard built
8M beneficiaries NORTH AFRICA Namibia Zambia
USD 550M lent (7 projects) Highway project 250 Swaziland
Nigeria Algeria USD 470M lent (5 projects) 640 km of roads paved
USD 525M lent (7 projects) Comoros USD 760M lent (8 projects)
450 km of roads paved and a major bridge built Air transport project
760 km of roads paved USD 50M lent (3 projects) Walvis Bay port and railway Railway equipment purchased
280 km of roads paved 1,200 km of roads paved network extended
2 airports built 2M beneficiaries
8M beneficiaries 200,000 beneficiaries & strengthened 1M beneficiaries Port project South Africa 224 Lesotho
Djen Djen Port equipped,
Air Algerie supported Rail project
Senegal Djibouti Rail network improved Sao Tom & Principe Zimbabwe 540
USD 640M lent (18 projects) USD 110M lent (3 projects) 20M beneficiaries USD 40M lent (2 projects) USD 280M lent (5 projects)
1,550 km of roads paved 110 km of roads paved 80 km of roads paved 700 km of roads paved Total AfDB 0 1000Km
Dakar Port expanded, an airport built 2 port terminals financed Sao Tom airport extended Railway equipment purchased loans and
12M beneficiaries 400,000 beneficiaries 100,000 beneficiaries 4M beneficiaries 1,000 500
grants in trans-
port projects Source : Infrastructure, Cities and Urban Development Department African Development Bank
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