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The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor: when infrastructure becomes a risk market
In December 2025, the Board of Directors of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Management Authority, ALCoMA, was sworn in in Abidjan, marking the project’s official entry into its operational phase. Behind this institutional act lies one of the most ambitious undertakings in West African integration: 1,028 kilometres of supranational infrastructure linking Côte d’Ivoire to Nigeria through Ghana, Togo and Benin, connecting eight major ports and concentrating 75% of ECOWAS regional trade, with a total investment of 15 billion dollars. Works will proceed in phases: critical urban bypasses between 2027 and 2030, main segments between 2028 and 2033, border post installations between 2029 and 2032, with full operational capacity expected by 2033. This corridor is not simply a highway. It is a junction between international maritime flows and regional overland trade, a space of accelerated circulation of goods, people and risks. The central analytical question is this: who structures, who covers, and who regulates these risks? That is what this note sets out to answer.