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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 proposal is to link Mali, Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana—which have different gauges—to the system.

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]}

2015

Various links.^[3]

• West African rail loop of 2740 km.
• Abidjan to Ouagadougou line.
• proposed new line linking Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Niamey in Niger.
• proposed new line linking Niger and Parakou in Benin.
• rehabilitation of the existing line to Cotonou in Benin.
• new link to Lomé in Togo.

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]}

• Dakar-Port Sudan Railway
• ECOWAS rail
• West Africa Regional Rail Integration

• Map from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

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