At the heart of the story will be, as is so often the case in Ethiopia, land. A LATECOMER TO THE URBAN ERAA journey on the new railway from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa is a reminder that for all the talk of Ethiopia’s urban transition, the country still has an enormously long way to go. Then, it continues on through the endless expanse of dusty, arid scrubland that unfolds until Dire Dawa, nearly 250 miles later. Adama and Dire Dawa are now expanding faster than Addis Ababa and have more space to do so. The old, defunct French-built track from Addis Ababa to Djibouti that runs through Dire Dawa, a historic railway town.

Source: Ethiopian News February 05, 2018 10:52 UTC