Tunisia’s Sfax-Gabès and Oued Zarga-BouSalem projects ready in 2016

Tunisia’s minister for infrastructure and housing, Mohamed Salah Arfaoui, has announced that the Sfax-Gabès and Oued Zarga-BouSalem motorways will be operational in summer 2016. On a visit to Médenine, he announced that other motorways would be commissioned by 2018, bringing the total network to 1,000km. Tunisia is expected to put out to tender the Kairouan-Sousse motorway this month, according to a report in March by Tunis Afrique Press. Arfaoui said at the time that the the Kairouan-Sousse motorway
September 2, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
Tunisia’s minister for infrastructure and housing, Mohamed Salah Arfaoui, has announced that the Sfax-Gabès and Oued Zarga-BouSalem motorways will be operational in summer 2016.

On a visit to Médenine, he announced that other motorways would be commissioned by 2018, bringing the total network to 1,000km.

Tunisia is expected to put out to tender the Kairouan-Sousse motorway this month, according to a report in March by Tunis Afrique Press. Arfaoui said at the time that the the Kairouan-Sousse motorway would cost around US$70 million, with financing aided by the World Bank.

Last November construction started on the last part of the Trans-Sahara Highway connecting the Algerian capital Algiers to the Nigerian capital and port Lagos. The final section of the 4,500km route is a 225km stretch connecting the town of Arlit in landlocked Niger to the Algerian town of In Guezzam on Niger’s northern border with Algeria. Airlit is a major industrial town built around the area’s uranium mines.
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