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Chad’s Deputy Infrastructure Minister Gata Ngoulou said the tarmacking work will be done gradually.
The first road to be tarmacked will be the 135 km road that links Massakory to Moussoro in the North of the country.
The tarmacking work which will take 36 months, will be carried out by a local Chinese construction company.
Ngoulou promised that feasibility studies for the other roads are still ongoing and tenders will be advertised soon for companies willing to carry out the work.
He said that the government hopes to tarmac a total of 625 km at a total cost of 600 million U.S. dollars.
The second most important road to be constructed will be the linkage to Massakory near the Nigerien border and which measures 446 km long.
It’s part of Chad’s section of the Trans-Saharan road that links East Africa to West Africa.
President Deby Itno said that Massakory road which leads to the Nigerien border will ease transportation between N’Djamena and Niamey and will also link Chad to the ports of Lome in Togo, Cotonou in Benin as well as to other ports in North Africa. Chad is a vast Central African nation which is landlocked.
It’s surrounded by Sudan in the east, the Central African Republic and Cameroon to the south, Nigeria and Niger to the west and Libya to the north. — Xinhua.
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