The west African road network is vast, estimated at over 709,000km of roads by the Global Roads Inventory Project. It ...

The west African road network is vast, estimated at over 709,000km of roads by the Global Roads Inventory Project. It compares unfavourably with other African regions.

"Africa experiences the highest incidence of road traffic fatalities, with a rate of 19.5 deaths per 100,000 individuals, compared to 16 deaths per 100,000 in Southeast Asia and 6.5 deaths per ...

Africa's longest road spreads across 10 different countries and spans a whopping 6,000 miles all the way from the north to the south of the vast continent.. The Cairo-Cape Town Highway, also known ...

There, he spoke with the UN’s Osman Benk Sankoh, about how Africa can achieve the 2030 road safety targets. These are excerpts from the interview. Read more .

The Africa Finance Corporation study shows the continent has 680,000 kilometers of paved roads, just 10% of the total found in India, which has a similar population but one-tenth the land area.

Traffic-related fatalities in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for nearly one-fifth of road deaths globally in 2021, even though the region holds only 15 percent of the world’s population and only 3 ...