Egypt focuses on 100 years-old road Cairo-Cape Town Road project

Egypt is making its detailed strategy to enhance joint projects with African countries including a land road between Cairo and Cape Town. The project is popularly known as Cape to Cairo Road or Pan-African Highway.

Hisham Arafat, the Transport Minister of Egypt has said in a recent Parliamentary session that the ministry aims to resume the river transport system after it was harmed by oil subsidies.

From around 1890, some in the British Empire envisioned a Cairo-Cape Town Road (around 10,300 kilometers long) that would stretch across the continent from south to north, running through the British colonies of the time, such as the Union of South Africa, Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Kenya, Sudan and Egypt.

According to Construction Review Online, a section of the road running from Egypt to the borders with Sudan, has already been accomplished and is ready for operation and global financial firms are looking forward to investing in this over-a-century old project.

On the other hand, Hisham Arafat further added that a river connection project between Alexandria and Lake Victoria should make the country to become a gate or river transport to Central Africa through the Nile River. The project is said to require an average investment of USD 18 billion.