This week, planners, policymakers and urban practitioners from across the world are gathering in Kuala Lumpur for World Urban Forum 9. This story is part of Next City’s coverage of the Forum. For more ...

The Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway will set a new paragon for China-African cooperation on railways, said Meng Fengchao, board chairman of China Railway Construction Corp (CRCC). The railway, ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian government on Wednesday said the Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has augmented its contribution to Ethiopia's import and export sector. The ...

Ethiopia and a Chinese company have signed $ 1.5 billion agreement for the construction of a 339 kilometer railway line. The line would connect an Ethiopian town with a railway network that links the ...

Two years after the handover to local control, the China-built railway is not done transforming the region.

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 ...

Soon after unveiling the first urban light railway in sub-¬Saharan Africa, Ethiopia accelerated the progress of its flagship project, a 700 km railway linking its capital Addis Ababa to the port of ...

Ethiopia is seeking another $300m loan from India for its Ethio-Djibouti railway project, estimated to cost a total of $1.2bn. India has already allocated $300m for the development of the 665km rail ...

Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) and the China Railway Group Limited (CREC) on Tuesday sealed a US$1 billion deal to build railway infrastructure in the Horn of Africa country. The new railway line ...

(eTN) – The Ethiopian government released information about plans to construct a major new rail network across the country. (eTN) – The Ethiopian government released information about plans to ...

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 ...