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March 30, 2015

Mega projects put Ethiopia on the map with $250M airport and $475M light rail

  • Once known for epic famines, Ethopia is building forward-looking infrastructure projects that are fueling talk of it as a rising African giant.
    • By ELIAS MESERET
    Associated Press

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s planned new airport on the outskirts of the capital is still years from becoming a reality but Tewodros Dawit can already envision how grand it will look.

    “The airport we are planning to build is going to be huge. Very huge,” Tewodros said one recent afternoon as he examined project plans in his office in Addis Ababa. “It will be one of the biggest airports in the world. I don’t know what other countries are planning in this regard for the future but no country has created this much capacity so far in Africa.”


     
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