Central African Republic Transportation Profile 2012

A large majority of people have no access to basic infrastructure. The roads are in a bad state and often impassable during the rainy season, and the Oubangui and Congo rivers are only navigable four months of the year. This helps to raise the cost of transport and price of staple items, which are more expensive than in non-landlocked neighbouring countries. Infrastructure and transport policy is based on linking the country to ports to move its raw material and manufacturing exports and imports, diversifying access routes and improving and linking up centres of development. The main partners in this are the AfDB, the World Bank and the EU, which are funding the 2007 Regional Transport Facilitation Programme involving the CAR, Cameroon and Chad.