Addis Ababa long awaited light rail joined Morocco, Abidjan, Johannesburg, Algeria and Cairo modern urban train service. Now that states are more float towards urban rail transport; it is expected ...

The Ethiopian Railway (ERC) has started passenger services on Addis Ababa Line 1, the first modern urban commuter rail service in the country and sub-Saharan Africa. The $470m Addis light rail project ...

China has come to the rescue of the Chinese-built Addis Ababa light rail transport service, agreeing to provide spare parts worth 155 million yuan (US$23 million) for the struggling network’s ...

Commuters in Addis Ababa, the booming capital ... but to provide a service to the city to enable its growth. “The light rail is not a commercial business, it is a social infrastructure.

Big cities, big urban areas have a constant problem with the transport facilities ... to meet such need and it was the Light Rail Transit of Addis Ababa that came as a partial solution to all ...

Excited commuters queued for hours to be the first to ride the tramway when it opened but now say it is not the transportation game-changer ... a spokesperson for the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit ...

The first light-rail transit line in sub-Saharan Africa opened on Sunday, bringing curious Ethiopians out in droves to line up for a ride on the Addis Metro in the capital city of Addis Ababa ... is ...

The Chinese-built 34-km Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AALRT) network has transported more than 29 million people in just nine months, says the Ethiopian Ministry of Transport (MoT). In a report ...

Addis Ababa’s $475-million light railway ... Ethiopian Transport Minister Workineh Gebeyehu and CREC representative Zhang Zongyan both cut the ribbon marking the railway’s formal inauguration.

The light rail and another Chinese-built transport project ... in January this year. The service is also substantially cheaper. Since the railway became operational, Tola brings dozens of blankets ...

Excited commuters queued for hours to be the first to ride the tramway when it opened but now say it is not the transportation ... for the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit Service, said the trains ...

Excited commuters queued for hours to be the first to ride the tramway when it opened but now say it is not the transportation ... for the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit Service, said the trains ...