ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia opened a new train line on Wednesday linking its land-locked capital to the Red Sea state of Djibouti, part of Addis Ababa’s infrastructure program aimed at ...

Addis Ababa: Ethiopian and Djiboutian officials have praised the Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti standard gauge railway for its pivotal role in promoting regional trade and economic cooperation ...

Project background and details of Ethiopia-Djibouti railway line modernisation The railway connecting Ethiopia with Djibouti via Dire Dawa is a 780km metre-gauge line opened in 1917. It is the only ...

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Xinhua Addis Ababa: The Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company (EDR) has reaffirmed its strong commitment to expanding the role of the Chinese-built railway ...

Addis Ababa, May 11/2024 (ENA) House of People's Representatives Speaker Tagesse Chafo has stressed the effective and decisive role played by the Ethio-Djibouti Railways in developing the national ...

The railway is a result, in part, of other unrest in the past. Ethiopia shifted its import focus to Djibouti after its border war with Eritrea between 1998 and 2000 created tensions that remain today.

A new $3.4 billion, 466-mile rail line connecting the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to neighboring Djibouti, now glides past an industrial park encamped on the surrounding plains. Seven miles west ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Share Company (EDR) has disclosed an income of 2.5 billion Ethiopian birrs (about 47.4 million U.S. dollars) for the past five months ...

Ethiopia signed an agreement with a Chinese state-run firm to build the final section of a railway line that will link its capital Addis Ababa to the tiny Red Sea state of Djibouti, an official said.

Smiths Detection technology has been selected by the Ethiopian Railways to secure the infrastructure on a key rail link connecting Ethiopia and the port at Djibouti. Under the contract, Smiths ...

ADDIS ABABA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway is streamlining Ethiopia's logistics sector, serving as a "crucial artery" for the country's import-export trade ...