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The project will replace a 150km dirt track with a modern four-lane motorway similar to this one, connecting Addis Ababa with Adama (Ji-Elle/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ethiopia borrows $720m to modernise road to Djibouti

The International Development Association (IDA) will lend Ethiopia $720m to improve road travel between Addis Ababa and Djibouti. The IDA is the division of the World Bank that deals with…

Egypt is concerned that the Grand Renaissance dam could reduce the downstream flow of the Nile by as much as 25% (Public Domain)

Ethiopia says Renaissance dam is 90% complete as alarm grows in Egypt

Ethiopia said Friday that its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile is 90% complete 12 years after work began, the Middle East Monitor reports. Faqrati Tamru, the vice-chair of the…

The Chinese-built and funded light rail system, shown here operating near Lideta station, is eight years old (A. Savin/Creative Commons/Free Art Licence)

Most trains on Addis Ababa’s light rail system grounded for want of spare parts

Some $60m is required to repair 23 of 40 trains operating on Addis Ababa’s Chinese-built light rail system, a city transport official told Ethiopian news site The Reporter. Mitku Asmare,…

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