New Djibouti-Ethiopia railway opens

[repo]

It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more than 750km (466 miles).

Travelling at 120km/h, the new service cuts the journey time down from three days by road to about 12 hours.

The $3.4bn (£2.7bn) project was built with the help of funding from a Chinese bank and will have Chinese staff.

 

[Nin xun]

Seems like a good thing but why not hirr local workers? It's a pattern seen all over Africa, hiring locals would surely be cheaper than importing workers from China.

 

[waraabe]

Seems like a good thing but why not hirr local workers? It's a pattern seen all over Africa, hiring locals would surely be cheaper than importing workers from China.

Ethiopian workers will be hired in 5 years when they have been trained. China is the way to go.

An African - Chinese partnership on all aspects

 

[repo]

Locals can not repair or drive trains. They can also not operate signal equipment. They can be train conductors check tickets..

 

[waraabe]

Fantastic news for east African and the horn in particular. Congratulations to the Ethiopians and Djiboutian. hope to see rail link between Somaliland and Ethiopia soon

 

[Hemaal]

Congrats to Ethiopia and Djibouti, this is great news.

 

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Djibouti station

 

[waraabe]

Nice development

 

[TheLibertarianQuiche]

Fantastic news for east African and the horn in particular. Congratulations to the Ethiopians and Djiboutian. hope to see rail link between Somaliland and Ethiopia soon

Stop begging us. We don't need ictiraaf-land kkkk.

 

[Sixth]

What's with the Naruto hand signs though?

 

[Adheer Warsame]

What's with the Naruto hand signs though?

Bring out the HA doy WA kunala gif

 

[ሕጊ።።]

What's with the Naruto hand signs though?

Blame the Chinese

 

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[SOMALI GENERAL]

Djibouti is ethiopia's little chihuahua.

 

[merka]

Djibouti is ethiopia's little chihuahua.

Let me know when Somalia gets a railway.

 

[TheLibertarianQuiche]

Let me know when Somalia gets a railway.

Already in the works..

 

[Knowthyself]

its always so weird to me when the chinese and the turks put their flags up on everything they build. like isn't it odd having a foreign flag flying everywhere from a hospital, to a school, to a railway station?

 

[Adheer Warsame]

Let me know when Somalia gets a railway.

 

[Adheer Warsame]

its always so weird to me when the chinese and the turks put their flags up on everything they build. like isn't it odd having a foreign flag flying everywhere from a hospital, to a school, to a railway station?

are easy to persuade kkkkkkk
s are the easiest, they adore Turks now

 

[Knowthyself]

are easy to persuade kkkkkkk
s are the easiest, they adore Turks now

they need to understand that nothing comes free. they all have their agendas, and it should be the peoples choice on weather or not its a price they want to pay for that "charity"