It’s rainy season, and this year’s rains have done some serious damage to roads in Togo. An important bridge on the main South to North trucking route was washed away, so the big trucks that transport things from the port in Lome to not only Northern Togo, but into other parts of West Africa, are using “our” road, the only other road in the country that is a South-North route. So “our” road, which is surely NOT built to withstand the weight of over-laden trucks, is being destroyed. In the photo below, it’s good to at least see a “road crew” at work on a huge hole that has taken out half of the road! The palm branches serve as a warning that there is a huge hole, and that men are working.

Just today, we came over this road, and at one point, there is an overturned truck that has been there for several days. We got past the area, but we learned that later in the day, one of our Togolese brothers had to wait at that spot for four hours because another truck was stuck in the mud on what’s left of the road beside the overturned truck.