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Africa’s Infrastructure:
A Regional Perspective
Banque Africaine de
Developpement
African Union
Agence Française de
Développement
Development Bank of Southern
Africa
Department for International
Development
European Union
The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
The New Partnership for Africa’s
Development
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility
Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Project
The World Bank
Water and Sanitation Program
Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic:
a multi-stakeholder effort
Key Message #1
Diverging incentives around
development and maintenance
of regional roads
Roads are variable in quality and traffic volumes
are not particularly high
Road condition (%)Traffic (%)
Good or fair
Paved
>1000
EA
C P
lus
56
57
23
EC
CAS
48
43
7
EC
OW
AS
74
92
42
SA
DC
71
74
33
Coastal countries unlike landlocked countries do
not invest sufficiently in the regional road network
Marked absence of connectivity between EAC,
and broader East Africa
Freight pays exorbitant rates, while traffic moves
at horse-and-buggy pace
Corridor
Length
(kms)
Roads in good or
fair condition
(%)
Trade density
(US$m /km)
Implicit
velocity
(km/hr)
Freight tariff
($US/tonne-
km)
Central
3,2
80
49
4.2
6.1
0.1
3
Weste
rn2,0
50
72
8.2
6.0
0.0
8
Easte
rn2,8
45
82
5.7
8.1
0.0
7
South
ern
5,0
00
100
27.9
11.6
0.0
5
Key Message #2
Regional integration brings a wide range
of benefits…but needs to build up from
functional national networks to
integrated regional networks
Power trade is associated with large financial,
economic and environmental savings
Savings in …
Return on
trade (%)
Spending needs
(US$ bn pa)
LRMC of power
(US cents/kWh)
CO2emissions
(mns tons pa)
CA
PP
0.2
-24
22
EA
PP
/NB
1.0
020
20
SA
PP
1.0
-141
168
WA
PP
0.5
-15
33
Minimal interconnections of national systems
(indeed minimal national grids) in ECCAS
Key Message #3
Success of regional projects contingent
on suitable regulatory environment at
the national and regional levels
Submarine cable by-passes many coastal
nations in West and Central Africa
Countries do not benefit fully from submarine
cable without competitive gateway access
Share
of
countrie
s
(%)
Price p
er m
inute
for a c
all
within
Sub-S
ahara
n ($)
Price p
er
min
ute
for a
call
to U
S ($)
Price for 20 h
ours
per m
onth
of dia
l-up
Inte
rnet access ($)
No access
to
subm
arine c
able
67
1.3
40.8
667.9
5
Access to
subm
arine c
able
32
0.5
70.4
847.2
8
Monopoly
international
gate
way
16
0.7
00.7
237.3
6
Competitive
inte
rnational
gate
ways
16
0.4
80.2
336.6
2
Key Message #4
Regional integration will only be feasible
with innovative financing mechanisms
to share costs and benefits
Spending needs dominated by power sector,
while ICT costs are trivial
(US$mn)
Total needs
(US$m /yr)
By category
By sector
Capex
Opex
Transport
Power
ICT
EA
C
513
320
193
141
365
7
EA
C P
lus
2,870
2,4
51
418
304
2,5
55
10
CE
MA
C680
469
113
265
311
6
EC
CAS
1,808
1,4
88
222
548
1,1
48
14
EC
OW
AS
1,464
1,0
06
458
375
1,0
82
7
SA
DC
2,095
1,6
85
410
728
1,3
52
15
Regional spending needs look affordable
at the regional level
But the burden of spending is inequitably
distributed
EAC Plus
ECCAS
ECOWAS
SADC
