Guinea-Bissau: Europe’s position on the €85m Dakar – Lagos highway

Guinea-Bissau: Europe’s position on the €85m Dakar – Lagos highway

Through its primary financial institution, the European Union wants to be the preferred partner of the West African countries in the long-awaited modernisation of this route.

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            ▪ Guinea-Bissau: Europe’s position on the €85m Dakar – Lagos highway

▪ Through its primary financial institution, the European Union wants to be the preferred partner of the West African countries in the long-awaited modernisation of this route.

https://www.africabusinessplus.com/en/816009/guinea-bissau-europes-position-on-the-e85m-dakar-lagos-highway/

Discussions are underway between teams from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Guinea-Bissau authorities on a loan from the former to the latter. The amount on the table is €85 million. This is half the estimated cost of rehabilitating 115 km of Trans-African Highway 7 between Dakar and Lagos, one of the continent’s most important roads, covering some 4 000 km.

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