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AfricaRail is a project to link the 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.
A future stage is proposed to link Mali, Senegal, which are also gauge; Nigeria and Ghana have a different narrow gauge of but are converting to .
On 8 April 2019 Ghana's Ministry of Railways Development reached an agreement with GERC to construct the Tema - Accra - Koforidua - Kumasi eastern line.
In 2020 the government of Ghana ordered new standard gauge rail equipment, SG equipment 30 June 2020 www.railjournal.com, accessed 6 August 2023 and the Ghana Eastern SG line was approved.
In 2022, the businessman Jeremie Taieb became the Head of the Strategic Steering Committee, in order to finance the project with international donors.
In April 2025 a standard gauge (1435mm) "Sahel Railway" connecting the landlocked countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger was announced. This railway would be paid for by nationalisation of Gold, Uranium and Cotton industries in these three Sahel countries and also remittencies from national disaspera. Sahel Railway /
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