AfricaRail is a project to link the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge railway systems of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin and Togo. A future proposed is to link Mali, Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana—which have different gauges—to the system.
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AfricaRail is a project that proposes to link the railway systems of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin and Togo.[1][2] These are all 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge.[citation needed]
A future stage is proposed to link Mali, Senegal, which are also 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge; Nigeria and Ghana have a different narrow gauge of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) but are converting to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in).[citation needed]
On 8 April 2019 Ghana's Ministry of Railways Development reached an agreement with GERC to construct the 340 kilometres (210 mi) Tema - Accra - Koforidua - Kumasi eastern line.
In 2020 the government of Ghana ordered new standard gauge rail equipment,[4] and the Ghana Eastern SG line was approved.[5]
In 2022, the businessman Jeremie Taieb became the Head of the Strategic Steering Committee, in order to finance the project with international donors.[citation needed]
^"RWG Chairman speaks in Lomé". Rail Working Group (The 2001 Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment). 7 December 2006. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
