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Bamako-‐Dakar Corridor Road Governance Report
Mars 2013
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1. Introduction Road Harassment on the Dakar-‐Bamako corridor has been documented by the UEMOA/USAID Trade Hub Road Governance initiative since July 1st 2009.
The corridor is 1387 km long of which 700 km is in Mali and 682 in Senegal.
IN 2012, a study by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) found 362 km of road in good condition, 600 km in fair condition and 420 km in bad condition.
The same study recorded a traffic level of 440 trucks per day at Diboli-‐Kidira border. A study by USAID in 2011 mentioned 1.4 million tons of cargo was transported annually by road. The cargo is classified as imports and transit goods while exports represent 10% of traffic.
There is railway line between Dakar and Bamako transporting about 20% of cargo from Senegal to Mali and about 95% of cotton from Mali to Dakar Port.
The following graphs are based on data collected from truck drivers through the Road Governance Initiative, better known as l’Observatoire des pratiques anormales or OPA for short.
2. Truck utilization and travel time
Note: Total time, or turnaround, around time includes waiting time for loading at departure, travel time and waiting time a destination. “Travel time” is the time it takes a truck to drive from origin, say a port, to destination, say Bamako Faladie, the inland terminal in Bamako.
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Average: 14.0 Days
Average: 6.4 Days
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Average: 4.1 Days
Average: 3.0 Days
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3. Road Governance status a. Number of controls per trip
b. Bribes per trip (CFA)
c. Delays per trip (minutes)
Dakar4 Bamako5
12 93 3
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Frontière
Moins de 1,5 contrôle aux 100 km
Entre 1,5 et 2,4 contrôles aux 100 km
Plus de 2,4 contrôles aux 100 km
Contrôles à la frontière
Contrôles hors frontière
Dakar193
Bamako26
63 114
50 1187276
118
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4. Comparison with other corridors in the region
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5. Bribe distribution by security agency a. Dakar-‐Bamako (Import)
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b. Bamako-‐Dakar (Export)
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6. Border Posts a. Crossing time and Bribes
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b. Distribution of bribes first three quarters 2012
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7. Major checkpoints (except borders)
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8. Harassments factors a. Drivers’ nationality
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b. Type of trucks
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c. Drivers’ level of education
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d. Truck ownership
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9. Verification trips
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10. List of checkpoints a. Mali
b. Sénégal