Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo Road, is a road in Kenya, and is part of the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo-Lokichar Road, which itself is a component of the

Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project, also known as Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that, when complete, will be the country's second transport corridor. Kenya's other transport cor ...

(LAPSSET) Project.

Location

The road starts in the port city of

Lamu Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated by road northeast of Mombasa that ends at Mokowe Jetty, from where the sea channel has to be crossed to reach Lamu Island. ...

and proceeds in a northwesterly direction through the town of

Bura, Tana River County Bura is a town in Tana River County, Kenya. Location The town lies on the west bank of the Tana River, approximately 50 km north of Hola In molecular biology, the δ (delta) subunit of DNA polymerase III is encoded by the holA gene in ...

, (not to be confused with ''Bura, Garissa County'') and continue on to the town of

Garissa Garissa ( so, Gaarrisa) is the capital of Garissa County, Kenya. It is situated in the former North Eastern Province. Geography The Tana River, which rises in Mount Kenya east of Nyeri, flows through the Garissa. The Bour-Algi Giraffe Sanctuar ...

. At Garissa, the road continues its northwesterly direction to

Mado Gashi Mado Gashi (also Modogashe) is a small remote town in Kenya. There are no large cities near Mado Gashi. It is connected by road to Isiolo (175 km west), Wajir (155 km northwest) and Garissa (155 km south). Mado Gashi has an unpaved a ...

. Here it takes a southwesterly direction through

Garba Tula Garba Tula (also spelled Garbatulla) is a town in Isiolo County, Northern Kenya. The town has an urban population of about 5,50 In 2007 it was up-graded to a District status. But with the new administrative sub-divisions of Kenya, Garba Tula is a ...

, to end at

Isiolo Isiolo is a town in Isiolo County, of which it is the capital. It is located in the upper eastern region of Kenya and geographically considered the centre of the country Kenya. It lies 285 kilometres north of the capital Nairobi. The town grew ar ...

, a total distance of approximately . The approximate coordinates of the road, immediately north of the town of Garissa are:0°22'14.0"S, 39°42'37.0"E (Latitude:-0.370556; Longitude: 39.710278).

Overview

This road is part of Lapsset corridor highway project. At

, this road links with the Isiolo-Lokichar Road, which is also planned. The road the joins with the existing Eldoret-Juba Highway, which will lead to the border with

South Sudan South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the C ...

. Also at Isiolo the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo Road will connect with the planned Isiolo-Moyale Road leading to the border with

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

Moyale Moyale is a market town on the border between Ethiopia and Kenya, and is the administrative centre for two Ethiopian woredas, Moyale of Oromia Region and Moyale of Somali Region. Moyale is the main border post on the Nairobi-Addis Ababa road, ...

. In October 2016, a consortium of lenders, led by the

Development Bank of South Africa The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is a development finance institution wholly owned by the Government of South Africa. The bank intends to "accelerate sustainable socio-economic development in the Southern African Development Communi ...

agreed to lend the estimated Kenya Sh:71 billion (about US$700 million), needed to construct this road.

Urban centres

The following urban centres lie along the route of the planned Lamu–Garissa–Isiolo Road: (1) Lamu Port (2) Bura, Garrisa, Kachiuru and Ndumuru in Meru County, Mado Gashi, El Dera, Gaba Tula and Isiolo.

Intersections

These are the major intersections along this road: (1) The

Mombasa–Garissa Road The Mombasa–Garissa Road, also B8 Road (Kenya) is a major highway in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. The road connects the port city of Mombasa to the inland city of Garissa. This road is composed of the Mombasa–Mali ...

at Garissa (2) The Thika–Liboi Road at Garissa (3) The

Garissa–Nuno–Modogashe–Wajir Road The Garissa–Nuno–Modogashe–Wajir Road is a road in Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi ...

at Garissa (4) The Isiolo-Mandera Road at Mado Gashi. Intersections with planned roads include: (1) The Isiolo-Lokichar Road at Isiolo and (2) The Isiolo-Moyale Road also at Isiolo.

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