News Ethiopia to build 1,000 public toilets in $523m water scheme Ethiopia has launched a $523m project to improve water treatment and provision in 23 cities.
News Ethiopia, Korea open textile research centre in Addis Ababa The governments of South Korea and Ethiopia opened the “Textile Techno Park” at the weekend, the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation reports. The subject of a memorandum of understanding signed back in…
News China to build electrical engineering centre in Addis Ababa The Civil Engineering Construction Corporation of China (CCECC) has agreed to build a “centre of excellence” in Addis Ababa to help train Ethiopian electrical engineers. The facility would be for…
News Kenya, Ethiopia agree to start $13.8bn railway in 2025 Kenya has signed an agreement with Ethiopia to build a 3,000km standard gauge railway network between its newly completed Lamu Port and Addis Ababa, the East Africannews site reports. Work…
News 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…
News 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…
News 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,…