The Trans-African Highway 5, also known as Dakar-N'Djamena Highway or Trans-Sahel Highway connects Dakar in Senegal with N'Djamena in Chad. Most of the road is completely paved, except for a 775 km long part in western Mali, but in many parts the pavement is in a poor condition.
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Course of the road
Senegal
- Dakar
- Tambacounda (462 km pavement, 315 km in poor condition)
Mali
Burkina Faso
- Koloko 50 km muddy road in bad condition
- Bobo-Dioulasso (paved, good)
- Ouagadougou (paved, good)
- Koupéla (paved, good)
- Fada N’Gourma (paved, good)
Niger
- Niamey (paved, ?)
- Dosso (paved , ?)
- Dogondoutchi (paved , ?)
- Birni N'Konni (paved , ?)
- Maradi (paved , ?)
- Jibiya (paved , ?)
Nigeria
Cameroon
Chad
In Dakar there is a connection to the Dakar-Lagos Highway (TAH 7) and to the Cairo-Dakar Highway (TAH 1). There is also a connection to the Trans-Sahara Highway in Kano, Nigeria and to the Ndjamena-Djibouti Highway in N'djamena, with which it will form a complete east-west crossing of the continent of 8715 km.