At Awash last week, at the edge of the spidery railroad bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway in ...

ETHIOPIA: Ethiopian Railways Corp has launched construction of the Bishoftu Railway Academy, which Chief Executive Hlina ...

Ethio-Djibouti Railway Share Company (EDR) says it plans to double its fleet of freight wagons and electric locomotives by the end of this year, a move intended to raise cargo-handling capacity on the ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Ethiopia expects to open a new railway line linking the capital Addis Ababa with the Red Sea state of Djibouti in early 2016, a project at the centre of plans to create ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - 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 ...

On 25 February in Kombolcha, Ethiopia, a ceremony took place for the Awash-Kombolcha-Hara Gebaya Railway Project. Those present at the ceremony included Ethiopia Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, ...

The Chinese management contractors of the Ethiopia-Djibouti standard gauge railway on Friday officially handed over the railway's management and operation to Ethiopia and Djibouti after six years of ...

Ethiopia has taken a decisive step to entrench its position as East Africa’s emerging railway hub as the Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC) makes plans to commence the construction of the region’s ...

The African Development Bank’s ( <a href="http://www.AfDB.org" id="92e24f22-1118-343a-a3a9-e2fe73b79972"> www.AfDB.org </a> ) Board of Directors has approved a $1.2 ...