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<p>The project road runs North from the turn-off to Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) to the North of Lilongwe to the turn-off to the district centre of Mzimba in Northern Malawi for approximately 234 km. The road starts at KIA junction and travels North via Kasungu and Jenda where it ends at the turn-off to Mzimba Boma. The section between the KIA turn-off to Jenda was constructed in the early 1980s and a portion of this section between Chatoloma and Jenda was resealed in 2005. The road is used by both motorised and non-motorised vehicles, in particular between Lilongwe and Kasungu where there are many trading centres and towns along the route. Between Lilongwe and the Kachinda turn-off to the S113 the road traverses mainly rolling to flat terrain with several river crossings including three high level bridges. It passes the following trading centres:</p>

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<li>Lumbadzi Trading Centre</li>
<li>Mponela Trading Centre</li>
<li>Madisi Trading Centre</li>
<li>Bua Trading Centre</li>
<li>Chinkhoma Trading Centre</li>
<li>Dwangwa Trading Centre</li>
<li>Phomwa Trading Centre</li>
<li>Bowe Trading Centre</li>
<li>Chatoloma Trading Centre</li>
<li>Nkhamenya Trading Centre</li>
<li>Jenda Trading Centre</li>
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<p>North of the Kachindamoto turn-off the terrain becomes hilly and the road passes through the Chimaliro Forest Reserve before reaching Jenda. North of Jenda there are a few trading centres and settlements but with far fewer people seen on the road than South of the Kachinda turn-off and in the vicinity of Jenda. The road passes through the Vipya forest reserve before reaching the turn-of to Mzimba.</p>

<p [removed]> Capacity improvement of the Kampala Kibuye Mpigi road  to an expressway road standard with limited access.</p>

<p>Rehabilitation of 75 km of existing Kampala-Jinja road to widen and strengthen the carriageway. The road forms a critical section of the Northern Corridor, linking landlocked East African countries with the Port of Mombasa.</p>

<p>Develop the Kampala Bombo Expressway to facilitate mobility and trade between Kampala and the major towns of Bombo,Masindi, Kigumba and Gulu, as well as to the neighbouring countries of Sudan and the DRC.</p>

<p>The KOB Project shall connect the following 10 locations/towns:<br />
? Ggaba;<br />
? Mukono;<br />
? Seeta;<br />
? Namugongo;<br />
? Kiira;<br />
? Kasangati;<br />
? Matugga;<br />
? Wakiso;<br />
? Buloba;<br />
? Nsangi.</p>

<p>The governments of Kenya and Uganda and Rwanda have committed to the development of a standard gauge railway that links the landlocked countries of Rwanda and Uganda with Mombasa port in Kenya. This project entails the section from Kampala to Kasese in Uganda.</p>

<p>The proposed Kaléta dam project entails the construction of a gravity dam, with a 240 MW capacity. The Kaléta site is located in Guinea, 115 km northeast of Conakry and 130 km upstream of the mouth of the Konkouré River.</p>

<p>This project was previously part of the larger Gambia River Basin Development Organisation (OMVG) project involving the four countries, namely The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. Guinea, however, decided to develop Kaléta as a stand-alone. Interconnection to other OMVG countries remains intended in future.</p>

<p>The project will have the following characteristics:</p>

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<li>Storage hydropower plant with 240 MW of hydropower capacity</li>
<li>Net average generation: 660 GWh/year</li>
<li>Gravity dam with maximum height: 22 m, crest length: 1060 m, reservoir storage: 23 million m3.</li>
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<p>~~At this stage , the project does require a feasibility study in order to define to the attention of the investor ,all aspects regarding the project namely economic , social, technical and environmental.<br />
This port was built during colonial rule by  1928 and since then big rehabilitation works had never taken place ; its infrastructures are nowadays in a very dilapidation state as described below :<br />
The port of Kalemie is managed by the DRC Railways company « SNCC » .The maintenance of seawalls, du chenal d’accès, des jetées  is under the supervision of «  la Régie des Voies Fluviales, RFV». The main activity of the port is linked to railways traffic.<br />
The port consists of a mole of 383,5 m moving toward the lake :<br />
On the internal side, there is a appontement in an armed concreteof 9,5m width,<br />
On the external side, embankments andrip- rapsdo protect the structure against theswells.<br />
The port does also have a dry dock which is in operations, but we do have a lot of difficulties regarding its functioning ie a launching longitudinal  slipway has not been used since 1974 because of a very badstate and the hydrocarbon jetée is partially destroyed and currently out of service .<br />
These structures are deteriorated and no longer offer conditions regarding security for port activities.<br />
The port being located on the Northern side of the l"’embouchure of Kalemie river, the courseof sand being brought by the river from south to north is being felt under the l"’influence of dominant wind moving from south-east to theendand inside the pier. The overhanging of sand dangerously decreases the width on the entrance to the port , influencing by that also theanchorage . This quantity of sand can be estimated to ± 400.000m3.<br />
All these deteriorated structures together with port cranes lead to a big bottleneckthat greatly reduces the corridor evacuation capacity.<br />
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<p>The One - Stop - Border - Post (OSBP) is juxtaposed. Offices in Burundi and Tanzania are located in each country at a certain distance from the borderline. In offices, the different Officers (from both countries) are seated side by side and all sevices are done simultaneously.The construction of all offices in Burundi and Tanzania has been funded by Trade Mark Africa.</p>

<p>The road runs in a north-easterly direction from the Junction M1 to Bunda Turn Off (outside Lilongwe), covering a total distance of 13km. See this project on an interactive GIS map (with Google Earth satellite imagery and geo-referenced photographs) at www.tmsagis.co.za. The Junction M1-Bunda Turn Off road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 25).</p>