East Africa — Concept Stage

East Africa — a network to the MMC standard.

13 corridors linking 42 cities, about 8,600 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 10,300 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 9 cross-border links and crossings. The African Spine from Khartoum through Addis Ababa and Nairobi to Dodoma and Mbeya, Mombasa to Kampala, the coast from Mombasa through Tanga to Dar es Salaam, and Addis Ababa to Djibouti.

The Network Concept

The corridors.

Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.

Schematic map of an MMC network concept for East Africa: corridors, cross-border links, sea crossings, mountain tunnels and the spines. — MMC East Africa network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.

Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.

SD-1 Nile: Wadi Halfa – Atbara – Khartoum – Gedaref – Gallabat
ET-1 Southern: Addis Ababa – Hawassa – Moyale (Ethiopia)
ET-2 Djibouti: Addis Ababa – Adama – Dire Dawa – Dewele
ET-3 Northern: Metema – Gondar – Bahir Dar – Addis Ababa
KE-1 Northern Corridor: Mombasa – Voi – Nairobi – Nakuru – Eldoret – Malaba
KE-2 Namanga: Nairobi – Kajiado
KE-3 LAPSSET: Nairobi – Isiolo – Marsabit – Moyale
UG-1 Northern Corridor: Tororo – Jinja – Kampala
TZ-1 TAZARA: Tunduma – Mbeya – Iringa – Morogoro – Dar es Salaam
TZ-2 Central: Dar es Salaam – Morogoro – Dodoma – Tabora – Mwanza
TZ-3 Northern: Dodoma – Arusha – Namanga
SD-2 Trans-Sahel: Geneina – Nyala – El Obeid – Kosti – Khartoum
TZ-4 Tanga Coast: Tanga – Dar es Salaam

East Africa — a network to the MMC standard.

The corridors.

To initiate the programme in East Africa.