Maghreb highway

The Maghreb highway (in Arab: الطريق السيارة المغاربية) is a highway through the Maghreb region of North Africa (passing in Mauritania, Western Sahara, 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

Moroccan part

Moroccan A3 motorway linking Casablanca to Rabat.

• Agadir-Casablanca (480 km – 2010)
• Casablanca-Rabat (90 km – 1987)
• Rabat-Fès (182 km – 1999)
• Fès-Oujda (328 km – 2011)

Algerian part

Algerian A1 motorway.

Algerian part

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) :

• Morocco-Algeria 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)

Tunisian part

Tunisian A3 motorway

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)
• Gabès to Tunisia-Libya border (182 km planned to enter service in its entirety in 2020)

Libyan part

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

The Libyan part will be made in partnership with Italia.

See also

• Transport in Tunisia