Govt secures P288m for transport project

The project is a component of the P2.6 billion Botswana Integrated Transport Project that also involves capacity building, feasibility studies and infrastructure development. Other components include studies on the Trans-Kalahari, Mmamabula-Ellisras and Mosetse-Kazungula rail lines as infrastructure investment to ease greater Gaborone congestion.

The P288 million from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) will co-finance the rehabilitation, upgrading and maintenance of the Kanye roads project. Government and the World Bank will provide additional funding for this and other components of the transport project.