The African Road Safety Conference was held from 5 – 7 February 2007 in Accra, Ghana. It was co-organised by the World Health Organization and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, with support from a number of agencies, notably the Swedish International Development Agency, the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, the Sub-Saharan African Transport Policy Program, the World Bank, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, and the Global Road Safety Partnership. More than 250 delegates attended the conference

The following African countries were represented: Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In addition, the following international organizations participated: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, World Health Organization, Sub-Saharan African Transport Policy Programme, World Bank, Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS), FIA Foundation, Department for International Development (DFID), SITRASS, Handicap International, and Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP).