Running a project across two or three sub-Saharan African markets at once introduces variables that rarely show up in a single-country plan: procurement timelines, regulatory sign-off, currency exposure, and the simple logistics of getting the right people in the same room.
What tends to work is building slack into the schedule at the points most likely to be affected by cross-border friction — customs clearance, local vendor onboarding, and multi-jurisdiction approvals — rather than spreading a generic buffer evenly across the whole plan.
Communication cadence also has to adapt. Weekly written updates travel better across time zones and languages than ad-hoc calls, and they leave a paper trail that matters when a project spans multiple regulatory environments.