TAH Timeline
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Updated: 26 Nov 2017
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Three months after the Trans-African Highway
Bureau had been set up, nine industrialised
countries met and offered help.” 152Buys et al ReportAfrican Development Bank ReportEAC Report 3ECA Agrees on trans-east-africa highwayThriscutt & O'Sullivan studyGardiner: Distance and DevelopmentEAC Report 2ECA Meeting: Assistance for pre-fesability studiesEAC Report 1First Meeting of TAH (Mombasa to Lagos) Committee. Addis AbabaPrioritising of lagos-dakar roadAthens centre of Ekistics foundedDoxiadis studyECA initiates trans-saharan roadsWest Africa Road initiatedEkistics journal startedAthens technical institute foundedUnited Kingdom of LibyaRepublic of SudanKingdom of TunisiaGhanaGuineaTogoMalagasy RepublicRepublic of the CongoBeninNigerBurkina FasoIvory CoastChadCentral African RepublicRepublic of the Congo (Brazzeville)GabonMauritaniaSierra LeoneTanganyikaBurundiRwandaAlgeriaUgandaKenyaMalawiZambiaThe GambiaRhodesiaZimbabweBotswanaLesothoSwazilandEquatorial GuineaGuinea-BissauMozambiqueAngolaDjiboutiNamibiaSomaliaEritreaSouth Sudan1st iteration
Mombasa-Lagos (including Chad)2nd iteration
Mombasa-Lagos (Excluding Chad)
Formally table by executive committee of the ECABy 1974 when small progress had been
made, it was still hoped that the road
would be completed by 1978 although
Gardiner wanted it finished by 1976” 153."By the end of 1971 concrete offers of aid for
the road had been made." 154Conference of Ministers in TunisOAU FoundedFormal launch of the AUSecond Meeting of the TAH Coordinating Committee. Bangui CARPeriods
Idi Amin rules UgandaDelos MeetingsPre-Feasibility study conductedLegal and Administrative Barriers to Travel Study
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