Abstract EN:

In deprived countries such as mali, upper-volta (burkina-faso) and niger which are for historical and geographical reasons bearing poverty, it has become a necessity, more an obsession to open up. Il l is all the more essential when we know that, these countries heavily rely on transports for their access to the international market, their food supplies and the good running of their economies. Through this their importance and their impact can be measured. The quick settlement of a transportation policy should be integrated in a global policy of development which should modify the socio-economc structures of which the growth was wrong, blocked or extroverted. If not, not only development runs the risk to be hindered, but also other territories areas , and even the whole country will be made enclaves. Interactions of transportation are more and more numeros and more and more various to intervene here and there. This is why, we have foud it quite interesting to show how from as turning point in the past : the inland areas of west africa have become "abandoned areas"for communications and how the transportation system has become obsolete to create or to be transformed in another system which doesn't cope with the level of development. Planning should settle a new economic geography as well as the good organization and functionning of the transports should aim towards a balanced development of the economy in favour of a subregional integration.