Ethiopia has\u00a0officially opened\u00a0a railway line, linking its capital Addis Ababa with neighboring Djibouti’s capital.<\/p>\n
The railway line, built at a cost of\u00a0$4bn (\u00a33bn) and\u00a0stretching for about\u00a0750km (460 miles),\u00a0will give landlocked\u00a0Ethiopia easier access to\u00a0the port in\u00a0Djibouti city.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Associated Press news agency, Ethiopian Railway Corporation spokesman Dereje Tefera said:<\/p>\n
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“This railway line will greatly reduce the travel time between the two countries and will contribute to the development of Ethiopia’s hinterland. It is an electrified system and environmentally friendly. This is what makes it different from other railway projects in Africa.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Ethiopia has\u00a0officially opened\u00a0a railway line, linking its capital Addis Ababa with neighboring Djibouti’s capital. The railway line, built at a cost of\u00a0$4bn (\u00a33bn) and\u00a0stretching for about\u00a0750km (460 miles),\u00a0will give landlocked\u00a0Ethiopia easier access to\u00a0the port in\u00a0Djibouti city. In an interview with Associated Press news agency, Ethiopian Railway Corporation spokesman Dereje Tefera said: “This railway line will greatly reduce the travel time between the two countries and will contribute to the development of Ethiopia’s hinterland. It is an electrified system and environmentally friendly. This is what makes it different from other railway projects in Africa.” STORY BY BBC NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}