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Train project goes off the rails

The construction of a railway from Addis Ababa to the Djibouti port Doraleh has had its first setbacks. [...] (366 words)

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DJIBOUTI
China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation
China International Engineering Consulting Corp
Ding Zhaojun
Djama Ali Guelleh
Electricite de Djibouti
Exim Bank of China
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Shanghai Electric
Shu Gao
Société djiboutienne des chemins de fer
Xue Weiping

Lack of power and soaring tempers about the train

While all the work on the railway appears completed there's not enough electricity for the line to start running normally. [...]

DJIBOUTI 13/01/2017

Railway ribbon cut a little too soon

With great pomp and in the presence of Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn a [...]

DJIBOUTI 09/10/2015

EDD’s Djama Ali Guelleh strikes a new deal with Shanghai Electric

Djama Ali Guelleh, the powerful managing director of Electricite de Djibouti (EDD) and cousin of the late Roble Olhaye Oudine, [...]

DJIBOUTI 11/09/2015

The electric train will finally run on diesel

President Ismail Omar Guelleh is about to drop his project [...]

DJIBOUTI ETHIOPIA 12/06/2015

Negative verdict on Addis Ababa-Djibouti line

The Auditor General, Gemechu Dibeso, would like to send the railway line under construction between Addis Ababa and Djibouti into [...]

DJIBOUTI 15/05/2015

Large freighters hog Ethiopian contract

The small freight forward companies are falling by the wayside in the race against the presidential family. [...]

DJIBOUTI 01/05/2015

Government purge of freight forwarders

The activity of maritime freight forwarders will be regulated by a series of measures favourable to the presidential family. [...]

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DJIBOUTI 13/03/2015

Ismail Omar Guelleh goes on a shopping spree in China on credit

True to his plan to transform his country into a kind of small Singapore and his ambition to be re-elected president in 2016 through a policy of instigating major infrastructure projects, President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) is investing without counting [. [...]

DJIBOUTI 16/01/2015

Chinese companies dominate the ports

The Djibouti government is banking on China to turn its country into a maritime hub for the whole region. [...]

DJIBOUTI ETHIOPIA 12/12/2014

The road of discord

The Ethiopian ambassador to Djibouti, Souleiman Dedefo, is highly preoccupied by the accumulated delay in building the Tadjoura-Balho (via Dorra) [...]

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DJIBOUTI ETHIOPIA 04/07/2014

IOG puts himself under Addis’ protection

The plan for economic integration devised by Djibouti and neighbouring Ethiopia could ultimately lead to a kind of political unification between the two countries. During the last few weeks, certain Ethiopian dignitaries have hinted at it and one of them [. [...]

DJIBOUTI 04/01/2013

Chinese companies go on the attack Free

The trip to Beijing by President Ismail Omar Guelleh in July 2012 is beginning to bear fruit. Contracts for Chinese companies are coming in fast and furiously. [...]

DJIBOUTI SOMALILAND 20/07/2012

The war of ports has begun

Just as Dubai World Ports is negotiating a contract to run the port of Berbera in Somaliland, Djibouti inked a port cooperation agreement with a Chinese company. [...]

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China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation
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Ding Zhaojun
Djama Ali Guelleh
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Exim Bank of China
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Shanghai Electric
Shu Gao
Société djiboutienne des chemins de fer
Xue Weiping

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EDD’s Djama Ali Guelleh strikes a new deal with Shanghai Electric

The electric train will finally run on diesel

Negative verdict on Addis Ababa-Djibouti line

Large freighters hog Ethiopian contract

Government purge of freight forwarders

Ismail Omar Guelleh goes on a shopping spree in China on credit

Chinese companies dominate the ports

The road of discord

IOG puts himself under Addis’ protection

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