Algeria continues to accumulate failure in a number of projects through which it seeks to compete with Morocco, the most recent of which is the transit road project for the Sahara, on which billions of dollars spent without seeing the light for decades..
The Algerian press touched on this project, which links 6 countries distributed over three African economic groups, and said that due to political and economic conditions experienced by the group's countries, the project continued to advance over six full decades..
The completion of this transit road to the Sahara was initiated in 1960, and it is expected that the Nigerian Nigerian Blogos will link, and Algeria is counting on this project to storm the African market, which includes more than 700 million people from the countries that will be linked to the road, namely Tunisia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria and the neighboring countries.
Media sources indicated that "Algeria spent its share 2.6 billion dollars, as it will be doubled with a pipeline that allows the export of Nigerian gas through the ports of Algeria towards Europe specifically, in addition to the completion of a line of optical fibers that connect it to Nigeria..
And Algeria aspires through this late project to "achieve regional integration and economic integration, especially between the countries of the Maghreb and the Sahel region and the gathering of West African countries, in light of the challenges that threaten the security and stability of the region.".
Algerian officials acknowledge the high cost of this project, as the head of the communication committee for the transit road to the desert, Mohamed Ayadi, told his country's press that the cost of one kilometer from the road reached about 6 billion centimeters.
According to the data, about 80 percent of the transit road for the desert are paved and 10 percent in the process.
Algeria seeks to provide direct access to the main ports in the Mediterranean to enhance trade between Africa and Europe, but the reality confirms the opposite;As the Tangier Mediterranean Port acquires a large percentage of maritime trade.