Beira-Lobito Trans -Southern African highway ( TSAH)

Abstract

The Roads of Africa are relatively very much under developed, particularly as regards interstate links and continental roads. At "the initiative of the Economic Commission for Africa therefore, six major Highways had been launched, i.e. Lagos-Mombasa, Cairo-Gaborone, Dakar-Ndjamena, Lagos- Nouakchott, Trans-Sahara and Tripoli-Windhoek. Three more had been identified: Beira-Lobito, Ndjamena Massawa/Djibouti and Nouakchott-Cairo. The next Highway to be considered, as indicated in the Global Strategy of the Plan of Action of UNTACDA, is the Highway from 3eira in Mozambique to Lobito in Angola, passing through Zimbabwe, Zambia and Zaire- with feeder links branching from the main Beira-Lobito Highway to adjoining States.