Transport in Burkina Faso

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1 Railways
2 Highways
3 Ports and harbours
4 See also

[edit] Railways

A rail link connects Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso with the port of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire: the line from Ouagadougou to the Nigerien capital Niamey stops at Kaya. Instability in Côte D’Ivoire in 2003 forced a rerouting of rail freight from the Abidjan corridor to ports in Togo, Benin, and Ghana via the road network. A proposed rail link between Ouagadougou and Pô in Burkina Faso and Kumassi and Bonakra in Ghana, has been discussed with Ghanaian officials, and feasibility studies are being undertaken to explore this possibility, which would provide rail access to the inland port of Bonakra. Burkina Faso and Ghana use different rail gauges.

total: 622 km (517 km from Ouagadougou to the excellent deepwater port at Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (on the border) and 105 km from Ouagadougou to Kaya)
narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries

Mali - no - same gauge 1000mm
Niger - no railways
Benin - no - same gauge 1000mm
Togo - no - same gauge 1000mm
Ghana - no - break of gauge - 1000mm/1067mm
Côte d'Ivoire - yes - same gauge 1000mm

[edit] 2006

An Indian proposal has surfaced to link the railways in Benin and Togo with landlocked Niger and Burkino Faso.

A Czech proposal has also surfaced to link Ghana railways with Burkina Faso. ^[1]. The manganese deposits near Dori are one source of traffic.

[edit] Towns served by rail

Banfora
Bobe-Dioulasso
Koudougou
Ouagadougou - capital
Kaya - terminus

[edit] Highways

In 2000, the Government of Burkina Faso classified 15,000 kilometers of road as part of the national road network managed under the Ministry of Infrastructures Transport and Housing (MITH) through the Directorate of Roads (DGR). This network includes main inter-city roads and access roads for départments’ capital cities. Only ten of the network’s main roads are even partially paved, and the paved roads are plagued by dangerous potholes, missing signage, missing barriers and guardrails near roadside hazards, and no pavement markings to separate traffic moving in opposite directions.
total: 12,506 km
paved: 2,001 km
unpaved: 10,505 km (1996 est.)