Trans-Sahelian Highway

The Trans-Sahelian Highway or TAH 5 is a transnational highway project to pave, improve and ease border formalities on a highway route through the southern fringes of the Sahel region in West Africa between Dakar, Senegal in the west and Ndjamena, Chad, in the east. Alternative names for the highway are the Dakar-Ndjamena Highway or Ndjamena-Dakar Highway and it is Trans-African Highway 5 in the Trans-African Highway network.

Trans-African Highway 5
Route information
Length4,496 km (2,794 mi)
Major junctions
West end TAH 1 and TAH 7 in Dakar, Senegal
Major intersections TAH 2 in Kano, Nigeria
East end TAH 3 and TAH 6 in N'Djamena, Chad
Location
Highway system
  • Transport in
← TAH 4→ TAH 6

The highway passes through seven countries and five national capitals, and links regions of similar climate and environment which have cultural and trade links going back centuries. It is one of two east–west transnational links in West Africa and runs inland from and, for most of its length, roughly parallel to the Trans–West African Coastal Highway with a separation of about 900 km (559 mi).

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