in Tripoli and one kilometer of tunnels, and thirty kilometers of right-of-way had been cleared in 2003. The rail line was subsequently plundered for its steel during the civil war. The Libyan government has tried to resume the project several times. In 2015, Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni visited Moscow and set up a commission to review the project. In 2018, the Libyan government approached Russia to resume construction on the Sirte-Benghazi line, and Russian Railways responded that Tripoli would have to compensate the company for costs incurred after the project was halted in 2011. In January 2021, the Egyptian government announced plans to extend its proposed high-speed link from Alamein through El Salloum to Benghazi in Libya. Morocco A trans-Maghreb high-speed rail line linking Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia is being planned. The project is expected to begin in Morocco and move towards Algiers, and finally reach Tunis. However, the difficult historical relations between Morocco and Algeria make the project not immediate. Part of this project line has opened as of November 2018 in the high-speed rail Al-Boraq, that service between Casablanca and Tangier, in Morocco and is the first of its kind on the African continent. By 2040, Morocco additionally is planning to build a route from Kenitra to Marrakech for 40 billion MAD/~$4 billion (upgrading the current Kenitra-Casablanca segment to high-speed), and to build a route from Marrakech to Agadir for 50 billion MAD/~$5 billion. China Railway Corporation has expressed interest in the latter project to the Moroccan government in the summer of 2021. In March 2022, following completion of the design studies for the Marrakech-Agadir project, a Korea National Railway-led consortium secured a $32 billion contract with ONCF (Moroccan National Railways) for section three of the planned 230 km line. The ONCF has announced plans to also build high-speed rail between Rabat-Fez-Oujda, on the Algerian border, by 2040. With initial feasibility studies completed, in July 2022 the ONCF announced that the first section (Rabat-Khemisset-Meknes) has begun environmental and social review, spurred by the ongoing success of the already-built sections between Tangier and Casablanca. Namibia As of 2020, the Namibian government is undertaking a detailed feasibility and design study to plan a line between the port in Walvis Bay through Windhoek to Gaborone (Botswana) and Pretoria (South Africa), as part of the African Union Agenda 2063. Construction would begin in 2023 at soonest. Sudan A 250 km/h rail link