{"id":59375,"date":"2026-04-25T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59375"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:50:38","slug":"algerias-trans-sahara-railway-the-most-ambitious-infrastructure-project-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59375","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Trans-Sahara Railway: The Most Ambitious Infrastructure Project of the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria is pressing ahead with full determination to implement the Trans-Sahara Railway project \u2014 Algeria-Tamenrasset \u2014 stretching to the southernmost borders of the country, in what could become the most significant infrastructure undertaking in African history this century.<\/p>\n<p>The railway will connect Algeria&#8217;s Mediterranean ports with Saharan and Sahel nations, reaching deep into West Africa. The project creates a massive economic zone linking six nations: Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Mali, and Burkina Faso, with potential extensions to Mauritania and Central Africa \u2014 serving a combined population of 360 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The Algeria-Tamenrasset rail line will dramatically strengthen Algeria&#8217;s economic leadership across the continent, mirroring in ambition China&#8217;s legendary Belt and Road Initiative. Algeria also carries a historic legacy worth reviving \u2014 the ancient caravan routes that once connected Africa to Europe across the Sahara.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with the north-south highway corridor, this project will fundamentally transform trans-continental trade and cement Algeria&#8217;s role as Africa&#8217;s indispensable economic gateway, dzwatch has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria is pressing ahead with full determination to implement the Trans-Sahara Railway project \u2014 Algeria-Tamenrasset \u2014 stretching to the southernmost borders of the country, in what could become the most significant infrastructure undertaking in African history this century. The railway will connect Algeria&#8217;s Mediterranean ports with Saharan and Sahel nations, reaching deep into West Africa. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}