Ethiopia is working on a project portfolio of over 1.65 biliton USD with the African Development Bank (AFDB), the Minister of Transport, Dagmawit Moges has disclosed. THE Minister had hosted the Executive Director of AFDB, Mr. Cheproo Amos Kipronoh to review the implementation of Ethiopia’s 10 years Perspective Plan. “I […]
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By David Jegede, Staff Writer Africa is moving despite all the hicupps. Shining example of ambitious infrastructural projects under committed implementation abound. The LAPSSET Corridor Program, the Eastern Africa’s largest and most ambitious infrastructure project bringing together Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan is such motivating example as one of the […]
The government of Ethiopia has begun preliminary work on a railway line to the port cities of Eritrea as Italy pledged funding for the project. Ahmed Shide, the minister of finance, said a feasibility study had been launched and the World Bank was behind the project. The railway would connect […]
After recent bad press for the Ethiopian -Djibouti train,James Jeffrey was in Djibouti and write a great piece titled “Chinese rigour meets African zest on a joint railway venture’. We re-published below: ‘We have had to adjust,’ says one Chinese boss on the Addis Ababa-Djibouti line with masterly understatement The […]
Ethiopia and Tanzania have raised the stakes in the competition for cargo business in the region by introducing electric trains. Tanzania has put out a tender for the supply of electric locomotives, 14 of which will carry cargo. Ethiopia has inaugurated its 756km $4 billion electrified rail connecting Addis Ababa […]