This ambitious program dedicates its priority budgetary orientations to the modernization of heavy infrastructure, with the goal of elevating the country to the rank of an upper-middle-income economy. Public effort is massively focused on extending the national road network, planning to increase the length of paved roads to 15,000 kilometers by the end of the decade, compared to 8,500 kilometers recorded during the 2024 fiscal year.

This integrated development policy includes a dual urban and interurban component aimed at facilitating exchange corridors with hinterland countries. In Abidjan, operations are focused on the construction of the first metro line, the commissioning of rapid buses on the Yopougon-Bingerville axes, and the development of 5 international road stations. At the national level, the highway network will experience a 75% extension, progressing from 400 kilometers to 700 kilometers thanks to the launch of the Western Highway connecting Yamoussoukro to Daloa. This network is complemented by regional interconnection railway projects, including a high-speed line project to Ferkessédougou, the rehabilitation of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou axis, and the creation of a new railway line connecting the port of San Pedro to the Malian border.

The financial engineering of this vast program relies on a co-investment strategy heavily dependent on external capital to the state budget. The validated financing scheme relies on a contribution from the private sector to the tune of 70% of the total cost of the projects, mainly through public-private partnership mechanisms. However, the final viability of this programming remains correlated to Abidjan's ability to raise these funds in a context of international credit tightening and rising interest rates. The technical teams will also have to overcome the constraints related to land expropriations, secure the maintenance of the works in the face of climate change, and guarantee the commercial profitability of these transport corridors in the face of competition from other West African ports.


Bernardo

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