will expand on this network to connect all political and economic capitals by rail. A: Accelerated Pilot Projects Kigali-Dar Es Salaam (1476 km) Kampala-Bujumbura (596 km) Walvis Bay-Windhoek-Gaborone-Johannesburg (1643 km) B: Pilot Projects, as part of the 2033 Master Plan Tunis-Algiers-Casablanca (1981 km) Douala-Bangui Kampala-Nairobi Dakar-Bamako (1147 km) Asmara-Addis Ababa (771 km) Lusaka-Beira Alexandria-Khartoum Ouagadougou-Abidjan (1120 km) Niamey-Cotonou (955 km) C: 2033 Master Plan Nairobi-Mombasa (459 km) Bamako-Ouagadougou-Niamey-N'Djamena-Khartoum (5384 km) Addis Ababa-Djibouti (637 km) Pointe Noire-Brazzaville-Kinshasa-Bujumbura (1755 km) Johannesburg-Maputo (524 km) Pretoria-Durban (626 km) Algiers-Abuja-Lagos (4111 km) Lobito-Lusaka (2253 km) N'Djamena-Bangui-Brazzaville-Luanda (2240 km) Addis Ababa-Nairobi-Dodoma-Lusaka-Gaborone (4812 km) Khartoum-Addis Ababa Luanda-Windhoek (1882) Mbeya-Lilongwe-Harare-Johannesburg-Maseru (3115 km) Lilongwe-Nacala (815 km) Lamu-Juba (1547 km) Bangui-Juba (1551 km) Juba-Kampala (672 km) D: 2043 Master Plan Alexandria-Benghazi-Tripoli-Tunis (2770 km) Casablanca-Laayoune-Nouakchott-Dakar (2733 km) Dakar-Banjul-Conakry-Monrovia-Abidjan-Accra-Lagos-Douala (7595 km) Yaoundé-Bata-Libreville (594 km) Mogadishu-Addis Ababa Windhoek-Cape Town (1632 km) Maseru-Cape Town (1135 km) Tripoli-N'Djamena (2437 km) Algeria In 2012 the Administration of Algeria Railway (ANESRIF) began building a double-tracked 142 km electric high-speed railway reaching speeds of 220 km/h from Oued Tlélat (Oran), with stops in Sidi Bel-Abbès and Tlemcen, and is 80% complete in fall 2021, with 129 viaducts totaling 14 km and 3 tunnels totaling 1.5 km. The project was due to be finished in 2019, but faced delays due to problems with land acquisition and due to COVID-19, and is set to open by the end of 2021. In 2015, the administration started building the extension from Tlemcen to Akkid Abbas (Maghnia) on the Moroccan border, a total of 56 km designed for 220 km/h journeys, but is only 7% complete as of fall 2021, largely due to land acquisition controversies in Tlemcen and Mansourah. This section will contain the largest viaduct in Africa, the M'dig Viaduct over the Isser river, (near Aïn Fezza), which will be 130 meters high, and 1.8 kilometers long, and a 600m tunnel into downtown Tlemcen, which will boast a renovated train station. The whole 198 km project is estimated at 2 billion euros. Egypt On 12 March 2018, Egypt's Transport Minister Hisham Arafat said that Egypt is in the process of launching a new high-speed railway linking the Mediterranean (Most likely referring to the northern coastal governates like Alexandria, Beheira) and the Red Sea with the participation of more than 10 international companies. In September 2020, a Chinese-Egyptian consortium consisting of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and the Egyptian Samcrete and