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Table 30:
TAH1 roads per country
Country
TAH 1 Road (km)
Egypt
1,519
Libya
1,824
Tunisia
826
Algeria
1,208
Morocco
1,572
Western Sahara
1,410
Mauritania
1,008
Senegal
345
Total
9,712
Source: Fimotions (2017).
Figure 42: GIS analysis of TAH1
Source: Fimotions (2017).
4.5.2.
Political and Institutional Factors
TAH1 is not a Transport Corridor in the political and institutional sense. There being no
common treaty between participating countries to develop the corridor or to integrate
politically. Because of this, there is no coordinating secretariat.
The development of TAH1 was
funded and supported by the
AfDB, JICA, The World Bank, and th
e African Union .The major
part of the highway betwee
n Tripoli an
d Nouakchotthas been constructed under a project of
th
e Arab Maghreb Union.Funding through international financial institutions leveraged
government funding, procurement complied with the procedures of the leading funding