Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

<p>The Serenje-Nakonde project road runs in a north eastern direction from Serenje in Zambia&#39;s Central Province to Nakonde (at the border post between Zambia and Tanzania) in the Northern Province covering a total distance of 611.5 km. The road is divided in 3 links: Link 1: Serenje to Mpika (238.3 km), Link 2: Mpika to Chinsali (164.6 k), Link 3: Chinsali to Nakonde (208.6 km) The Serenje-Nakonde road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link 15) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 4.</p>

<p>The Sena line runs from Limbe (going through Chiromo where the railway line crosses the Shire River, where the culvert has been washed away and Nsanje) to Marka, the border between Malawi and Mozambique.</p>

<p>New construction of 128.3 km from Rihaid El Birdi in Sudan to Om Dafug on the Republic of Central Africa boarder.</p>

<p>The project entails the installation of the Zambia section of the 600 km fibre-optic link between Lusaka and Lilongwe: from Lusaka to the border with Malawi.</p>

<p>The project involves the construction of a fibre optic network from Lusaka to Kasumbalesa a town at the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).</p>

<p>Deployment and implementation of a broadband connectivity link between Kinshasa and Lusaka through the link Muanda-Kinshasa then Kinshasa-Kasumbalesa, afterwards establishes a cross boarder connection operated by Zamtel in Zambia and la Société Congolaise des Postes et des Télécommunications (SCPT) in DRC.</p>

1750 km of dual freeway road designed of 2x3 lanes with extra emergency lane in each direction. The design was done according to the modern international of highway standards. The project design includes also all necessary services areas that are allocated on both sides of the Motorway. Such service area will provide all basic needs to the passengers and travelers including motels, patrol stations, shops &amp; cafeterias as well as other services such as maintenance utilities. The number and sizes of these service stations are extendable to meet all future demands.

<p>The project road runs north from the district capital town of Karonga in northern Malawi for 45.9km to the Tanzanian border at Songwe. Road M1 is the main North-South arterial in Malawi. The Karonga-Songwe section links Malawi to the important port of Dar es Salaam and as such forms a vital link for importing of strategic goods. Zambia%u2019s Eastern Province especially makes use of this and other sections of the M1 road to obtain the shortest route to the port for import of agricultural inputs and export of agricultural produce. In future the town of Karonga will become a strategic junction town as the construction of the African Union promoted link road between Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi progresses. This road is currently under construction between Karonga and Chitipa on the Zambian border.</p>