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Ethiopia-to-Djibouti Rail to Be Complete in a Year, PM Says
William Davison, Oct 17 An electrified rail link from Ethiopia’s capital along its main trade route to neighboring Djibouti will be completed by October 2015, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said. The Railways Corp. project, funded with a $1.6 billion advance from the Export-Import Bank of China and by Ethiopia’s government, is half complete, he […]
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Ethiopia and Eritrea: Rising Tensions Amid New Opportunities for Engagement
by Jason Mosley, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme The latest report from the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea has stirred tensions between Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Eritrea has seized on a selective reading of the report to call for the lifting of UN imposed sanctions, a call already rebuffed by the Monitoring Group’s Coordinator. […]
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