The road links Elwak, to the town of Mandera, in the country's extreme northeast, near the tri-point where the borders of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia meet.
The road starts at Elwak, Mandera County, at the border with the town of El Wak, Somalia.
It travels in a general northerly direction through a village called Warankara, continuing north to the town of Rhamu, at the border with Ethiopia, a distance of approximately 143 kilometres (89 mi).
This road is an important transport corridor for traffic from Mombasa and Nairobi destined for Mandera.
[3][4] In March 2016, the government of Kenya publicly committed to upgrading this gravel-surfaced road to class II bitumen surface with culverts, drainage channels and shoulders, before the end of 2018.