#trans-african highway
Egypt's Minister of Transportation has announced that the Cairo-Cape Town Highway will commence trial operations at the start of 2015. Also known as the Trans-African Highway, the road network, being developed with the collaboration of the African Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank, will be 10,228 kilometers in length, connecting Egypt and South Africa, along with countries in between, such as Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Sudan. According to the Ministry of…