As part of the Global Gateway, and in line with the African Union’s Agenda 2063 as well as the ambitions of the African Continental Free Trade Area, the EU intends to support the African continent by financing quality connectivity infrastructure through multi-country Team Europe Initiatives shaped along Strategic Corridors. The Strategic Corridors are transport systems that facilitate sustainable, efficient, smart, resilient, fair, affordable, secure and safe mobility and trade within Africa, as well as between Africa and Europe. They underpin the territorial organisation (rural and urban) through reliable networks and services that create jobs and support value chains that can benefit industries in both Africa and Europe. Eleven strategic corridors have been identified as priority:

• 1. ABIDJAN-LAGOS (West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)
• 2. ABIDJAN-OUAGADOUGOU (West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso)
• 3. PRAIA/DAKAR-ABIDJAN (West Africa: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Cabo Verde
• 4. COTONOU-NIAMEY (West Africa: Benin, Niger)
• 5. LIBREVILLE/KRIBI/DOUALA-N’DJAMENA (Central Africa: Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Chad, São Tomé and Príncipe
• 6. DOUALA/KRIBI-KAMPALA (Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda
• 7. DAR ES SALAAM-NAIROBI-ADDIS ABABA-BERBERA/DJIBOUTI (East Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti)
• 8. MOMBASA-KISANGANI (East Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• 9. MAPUTO-GABORONE-WALVIS BAY (Southern Africa: Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana, Namibia
• 10. DURBAN-LUSAKA Southern Africa: South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia
• 11. CAIRO-KHARTOUM-JUBA-KAMPALA (North and East Africa: Egypt, Soudan, South Sudan, Uganda)