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Map showing the scope of the LAPSSET Project within Kenya. The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project, also known as Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that, [1] when complete, will be the country's second transport corridor.
The Addis Ababa City Corridor Project, also known as Smart City Project, [1] is an ongoing urban planning project in the city of Addis Ababa initiated by the Addis Ababa City Administration in December 2022 to upgrade key routes and improve connectivity among the corridors. Due in 2025, the project aims to expand metropolis that incorporates ...
The project seeks to foster economic growth and facilitate trade across the region. [1] [3] [4] The project includes several elements: An oil refinery in Lamu; Three airports; Three resort towns: Lamu, Isiola and Lake Turkana; A deep-sea port in Manda Bay, called Lamu Port; A railway line from Lamu to Juba (South Sudan) and Addis Ababa ...
The A1 trunk road in Ethiopia connects the central highlands to the sparsely populated eastern region, providing an international route to Eritrea and Djibouti.The middle section, between Addis Ababa and Adama, is a busy corridor passing through urbanized areas, with the Addis Ababa-Adama Expressway running parallel.
In December 2014, under project of Addis Ababa-based software company Hybrid System, RIDE taxi service was launched by CEO Samrawit Fikru with SMS-based. [10] She started with capital less than $2,000 and over 90 of staff employees were women. [11] In 2017, Hybrid Design launched the first application platform to provide door-to-door service. [12]
The Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Rail Transport S.C., a bi-national public company headquartered in Addis Ababa, was formed in 2017 to operate the railway. It is owned by the governments of Ethiopia (75% share) and Djibouti (25% share). Ethiopia holds the CEO post, represented through the Ethiopian Minister of Transport. The company currently ...
This in turn was followed shortly thereafter by an announcement that Abiy and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had reached an agreement for the construction of an Ethiopian logistics facility at Lamu Port as part of the Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) project.
25 December – The Ethiopian National Defense Force closes the country's border with Somalia following heavy fighting in rural areas of Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes.