Launch of work on a bridge linking Senegal to Mauritania

INA-  SOURCES

The Senegalese President, Macky Sall, and his Mauritanian counterpart, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, proceeded Tuesday in Rosso in Mauritanian soil, to the launch of the works of the Rosso bridge to connect the two countries.
 
Until then, ferries sailing between the two homonymous towns of Rosso allowed the transport of people and goods to the Senegalese-Mauritanian border.
 
 
 
The bridge, which will be built over the Senegal River, will strengthen trade between the two countries while promoting regional integration.
 
“Integrating, developing and making a difference in the daily life of the populations, these are three ambitions that we want to achieve with the Rosso bridge to make it a real link between West Africa and the Maghreb”, said Salomon Quaynor, Vice President of the African Development Bank (AfDB).
 
“With the Senegambia bridge (between Senegal and Gambia) that we have financed, the Rosso bridge completes the only missing link in the Tanger-Lagos and Algiers-Dakar corridors”, continued Quaynor speaking at the start of the works.
 
“The construction of a permanent crossing over the Senegal River between the twin towns of Rosso meets a real economic requirement while translating a concrete act of development”, maintained Mauritanian President El Ghazouani.
 
 
 
At a total cost of 88 million euros, including 40 from the ADB, the infrastructure of 1,481 meters long and 7.2 meters wide should be operational in thirty months according to the contractual terms.
 
The rehabilitation of 10 km of urban roads in the Mauritanian part and the construction of 65 km of road in Rosso Senegal are the ancillary components of the project which will also allow time savings on the Dakar-Nouakchott axis which stretches over 550 km.