Atiak–Laropi Road

On 13 January 2020, STRABAG International signed the contract for the project to upgrade the Atiak–Laropi Road (66 km) in Uganda to paved standard. The contract value for the project, co-financed by the European Development Fund (EDF), amounts to € 54 million. Start of works was in early March 2020, with completion scheduled for November 2023.
 
The Atiak–Laropi Road project, situated about 400 km north of the Ugandan capital of Kampala, is part of a regional, national and international route connecting the remote northwest of Uganda and South Sudan to Kampala via Gulu, the administrative capital of the country’s Northern Region. The 66 km road starts in Atiak at a junction off the Gulu–Atiak–Nimule Road and runs in a northwesterly direction traversing dry grasslands with short grass and shrubs through the town of Adjumani before ending in Umi at the ferry landing site on the White Nile. The existing gravel road will be widened and upgraded to a 7.00 m wide an asphalt carriageway with two 2.00 m shoulders. The route leads through about 2.5 km of urban and 63.5 km of rural area. Drainage works consist of the construction of drains, box culverts and pipe culverts. A ferry pier also has to be built on the banks of the Nile.