BENNO MUCHLER, BYLINE: It's 10 a.m. on a weekday at the main train station in Ethiopia's second-largest city, Dire Dawa. Baboons climb around a workshop overgrown with vegetation.

Camels rather than locomotives lumber over the railway tracks in this remote desert, famously traversed by storied French adventurers Arthur Rimbaud and Henry de Monfreid in the early 20th century.

Local residents walk on the platform of a light rail station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 20, 2015. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo) ADDIS ABABA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese-built 34-km Addis Ababa Light ...

Here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, China is driving an urban renaissance. It has built whole neighborhoods, a $475-million light-railway system and even the African Union headquarters, a ...

China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co., which has carried out the power supply project to the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AA-LRT) in Ethiopia's capital, has guaranteed the smooth ...

Camels rather than locomotives lumber over the railway tracks in this remote desert, famously traversed by storied French adventurers Arthur Rimbaud and Henry de Monfreid in the early 20th century.

Ethiopia’s new railway is expected to cost close to 8 billion euros with funds coming from China, India, Brazil and Turkey. It is also expected to generate 30,000 new jobs.

Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa. It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more ...

The Ethio-Djibouti Railway is part of the city's master plan and will not be demolished, as it is the country's heritage, the Addis Ababa City Road Authority (ACRA) said on Thursday.

Opinion - As a matter of fact, people residing in divergent parts of the world predominantly in developed countries take advantage of various means of transportation. A quantity of countries ...

A new train from the Ethiopian capital to the Djibouti coast offers a desert journey into parts of East Africa that have been off the tourist track. Lebu Station, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa ...

Local residents walk on the platform of a light rail station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 20, 2015. (Photo: Xinhua) The Chinese-built 34-km Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AALRT) network has ...