Maghreb highway explained

The Maghreb highway (in) is a highway through the Maghreb region of North Africa (passing in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya). The highway is made up of an Atlantic main road (from Nouakchott to Rabat), and a Mediterranean main road (from Rabat to Tripoli).

Detailed route

Agadir-Casablanca (480 km – 2010)
Safi-Rabat (313 km – 2016)
Rabat-Oujda (527 km – 2011)
Fnidek-Tétouan (28 km – 2008)
Berrechid-Béni Mellal (173 km – 2015)
Rabat-Tanger Med (308 km – 2016)

Trans saharan expressway:

See main article: East–West Highway (Algeria). 1,216 kilometers in Algeria from the Moroccan border to the Tunisian border (via Tlemcen, Oran, Chlef, Alger, Sétif, Constantine, Annaba and 16 others wilayas) :

Algeria–Morocco border to Chlef (365 km via Tlemcen and Oran planned for 2010)
Chlef-Bordj Bou Arreridj (435 km via Alger planned for 2010)
Bordj Bou Arreridj to Algeria-Tunisia border (365 km via Sétif, Constantine, and Annaba planned for 2011)

Algerian border-Tunis (207 km) :

- Algeria-Tunisia border to Bousalem (70 km planned for 2020) with two exits to Jendouba and Tabarka Bousalem-Oued Zarga (70 km March 2016) with an express way to Béja
Oued Zarga-Medjez el-Bab-Tunis (67 km February 2006)

Tunis-Libyan border (573 km) :

Tunis-Hammamet (51 km 1986)
Hammamet-M'saken (92 km March 1994) with an exit to Sousse
M'saken-Sfax (97 km July 2008) with an exit to Mahdia
Sfax-Gabès (151 km May 2018) ^[1]
Gabès to Tunisia-Libya border (182 km planned to enter service in its entirety in 2020)

200 kilometers for Libya linking the Tunisia-Libya border to Tripoli tuniso-libyenne à Tripoli.

The Libyan part will be made in partnership with Italy.