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Viewing cable 06BAMAKO1114, MALI'S UNFUNDED ROAD TO THE FUTURE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06BAMAKO1114 2006-10-06 14:10 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bamako
VZCZCXRO2432
RR RUEHLMC
DE RUEHBP #1114/01 2791410
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 061410Z OCT 06
FM AMEMBASSY BAMAKO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6199
INFO RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUEHLMC/MCC WASHINGTON DC 0001
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BAMAKO 001114 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV ECON EAID ML
SUBJECT: MALI'S UNFUNDED ROAD TO THE FUTURE 
 
REF: A. BAMAKO 1032 
     B. BAMAKO 0590 
 
1.  SUMMARY: Mali's road system, particularly to the north 
and east, is inadequate to promote either security or 
economic development.  The Malian government has addressed 
this concern with a comprehensive fifteen year building plan, 
but is able to fund little more than maintenance on the 
current network.  Mali currently depends on donor funding for 
nearly all new construction.  Prior to the civil war in Cote 
D'Iviore, Abidjan was the port of entry or departure for over 
80 percent of Mali's exports and imports.  The war disrupted 
the link between Mali and Abidjan, and as a result the GOM 
has asked donors to support construction projects focused on 
improved access to ports in Dakar and Nouakchott, and even as 
far afield as Lome and Tema (in Ghana).  Roads to the north 
and east of Bamako needed to spur economic and political 
integration and facilitate regional security (reftel A) are 
included in the national plan, but important segments would 
not be initiated until 2008 and as late as 2012--and only if 
more donor funding is forthcoming.  Until the roads are 
built, the underdevelopment and insecurity that plagues 
northern Mali will likely continue unabated into the 
foreseeable future.  End Summary. 
 
Priority of Priorities 
---------------------- 
 
2.  Mahamadou Diallo, Technical Advisor to the Minister of 
Transport and a civil engineer by profession, said that roads 
are the "priority of priorities" in Mali, and provided 
details of current programs and future ambitions in a 
discussion September 25.   Diallo contributed to an ambitious 
plan that, if implemented fully, would link Bamako with most 
major towns by paved roads by 2020, with an overall price tag 
of 1.6 Trillion FCFA (about 3.13 billion USD).  Diallo says 
nearly every government official understands the need to 
expand and/or improve the current transportation network, and 
road funding is intensely debated at the National Assembly, 
but funding for nearly all aspects of the plan will have to 
come from donor countries.  Diallo says the Transport 
Ministry's allocation of the Malian state budget, 13 billion 
FCFA (2.3 million US dollars), is only enough to maintain the 
road network already in place. 
 
3.  Diallo said the war in Cote D'Ivoire was shock to the 
Malian transport system; before the war he estimated that 
over 80 percent of Malian exports and imports passed through 
Abidjan.  Mali now depends heavily on the port at Dakar, 
which Diallo believes is overcrowded and inefficient. 
Consequently, the GOM has ongoing projects with  donors to 
improve or build roads and infrastructure facilitating access 
to a variety of ports.  The targeted ports not only include 
Dakar and Nouakchott but also ports as far afield as Lome and 
Tema (Note: access to the last two ports depends on the 
quality of roads through Burkina Faso as well as Mali.  End 
Note).  These road projects, not coincidentally, are also 
concentrated to give better export channels for cotton, 
Mali's principal cash crop. Diallo says that Mali currently 
has nearly 195 billion FCFA (382 million USD) in ongoing 
donor-fund infrastructure projects, mostly supported by the 
EU, World Bank, and the Islamic Development Bank. 
 
4. Important northern segments in the national plan, 
essential for security as well as economic development 
according to many Malian observers (reftel A), include the 
following: 
 
--Bamako-Timbuktu: 635 kilometers, 100 billion FCFA (196 
million U.S. dollars), with segments initiated in 2008 and 
completion unlikely until 2012. 
 
--Mopti-Gao:  568 kilometers, with a projected cost of 48 
billion FCFA (94 million USD) and a construction date of 
2008.  The paved road was poorly maintained and needs 
significant rehabilitation.  The road linking Mopti to Bamako 
is in a good state of repair. 
 
--Gao-Bourem:  95 kilometers, 15 billion FCFA (29 million 
USD), 2008. 
 
--Bourem-Kidal:  260 kilometers, 41 billion FCFA (80 million 
USD), 2012. 
 
--Kidal-Algerian border: 300 Km, 24 billion FCFA (47 million 
USD), 2012.  This segment would be an improved all weather 
unpaved road, thus the relatively low price for the distance 
covered. 
 
5.  COMMENT:  The roads linking Bamako with Timbuktu, Gao, 
and Kidal are critical for security as well as economic 
reasons (reftel A), and until constructed, the economic, 
 
BAMAKO 00001114  002 OF 002 
 
 
political, and cultural trends pulling northern and southern 
Mali apart are likely to continue. 
MCCULLEY