Multinational - Mano River Union Road Development and Transport Facilitation Programme, Phase II

The Road Development and Transport Facilitation Programme – Phase 2, is a regional initiative to develop and pave a total of 67.1 km of road linking the South-eastern Liberia and western part of Cote D’Ivoire. The road sections concerned are: (i) Development of 20 km road from Fish Town to Kelipo (River Gee County in Liberia) and (ii) Development of 47.1 km from Sanniquellie to Loguatuo of Liberia, up to the Border town of Gbeunta in Cote D’Ivoire. These road sections are still dirt roads, barely 6 metres wide and impassable for most of the year. The bridges spanning the numerous rivers in the area are built of makeshift timber and they have numerous road checkpoints and ill-adapted border posts that render journeys long and fastidious. This calls for the development and paving of the roads, construction of 36.55-meter span bridge on the Nuon River connecting Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire at the Loguatuo/Gbeunta Border and the construction of joint border control posts. The programme will be executed from January 2019 to December 2022 for an estimated total cost of UA 61.88 million.