Some 38% of the 54 independent African states are involved in conflict, according to Africa Sun News.Based on research by the publication there are currently around 15 African countries that are involved in war, or are experiencing post-war conflict and tension. Starting in the north, unstable Algeria is the gateway through the port of Algiers for the Algiers-Lagos Highway, which has been in progress since 1962.In West Africa, the countries include Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. These fall on the Cairo-Dakar corridor, which links with the Trans-Sahelian Highway between Dakar and Ndjamena in Chad. It is the only one of a network of nine highways designed to connect Africa in a project launched in 1971 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Work is scheduled to start in 2022 on the first phase of the Dakar- Bamako Railway Project. This includes investment in new rail infrastructure (track and rolling stock) to upgrade the existing network of the Senegal section of the 1 228-km railway between Dakar and the border with Mali.In East Africa, the conflict countries include Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. Ethiopia is currently in the news as it is reported to be in a state of civil war. According to Githua Kihara, chief editor of Freight Logistics, the conflict is the latest in a range of geopolitical shifts taking place in the Horn of Africa which are putting the future of the yet-to-be-opened Kenyan port of Lamu in question.“The much-hyped LAPSSET project no longer interests landlocked Ethiopia and South Sudan, which are now looking for sea trade routes in Eritrea, Somaliland and Djibouti,” he writes.While the first three of the proposed 32 Lamu berths were completed in 2019, the official launch of the port has been delayed a number of times.In Central Africa, the countries include Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. These fall within or border on the Central Corridor from the port of Dar es Salaam through Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.There is overlap with the Northern Corridor, which was created to link landlocked countries of Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda to the Kenyan seaport of Mombasa.Kenya is facing incursions from al-Shabab fighters crossing over from Somalia on its northern border, in addition to internal unrest caused by widespread hunger following crop failures. In southern Africa, the countries in conflict include Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.A recently published study by the ECDPM (European Centre for Development Policy) says conflict in the north of Mozambique is threatening the future of the Nacala Corridor.In addition, the authors state: “Although transport corridors linking Malawi’s production hubs to ports in Mozambique are considered a priority on paper and Beira and Nacala feature as “priority” corridors in the SADC region Spatial Development Initiative, there do not appear to be any champions pushing for greater efficiency, especially in Nacala.”Angola continues to be criticised for human rights abuses, with the Human Rights Watch highlighting the 2019 crackdown on peaceful protesters and activists in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda and the diamond-rich Lunda Norte.