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Adanech has expensive taste
Posted: 23 Feb 2023, 14:05
by Tiago
The mayor of Addis Ababa princess Adanech Ababa shopping list includes -
A pair of shoes @$71,000 birr
Jacket @$4,000,000 birr
It looks she is buying them from one of those expensive shops in London,such as Liberty in regent street.
People are dying of hunger and she is splashing Ill-gotten money.
Disgusting!!
Re: Adanech has expensive taste
Posted: 23 Feb 2023, 14:16
by Noble Amhara
China and Ethiopia: The Addis Light Train Stuck in Slow Motion
Sub-Saharan Africa’s first inner-city tram project was hailed as historic in 2015. Seven years later, it faces more problems than ever.
By
Istvan Tarrosy and
Zoltan Voros
February 03, 2023
This article is the fifth in a series dealing with rail and industrial park developments by Chinese actors in Ethiopia, which began with our analyses of the Addis Ababa Light Rail Train (AALRT) and the Addis-Djibouti railway in The Diplomat in 2018. Part 3 revisited the same two projects in 2019; Part 4 described our visit to Mekelle Industrial Park in 2020. This time, we revisited the AALRT, got on board, and observed the current state of infrastructure and service in Ethiopia’s capital.
The Addis Ababa Light Rail Train (AALRT), sub-Saharan Africa’s first inner-city tram project, was hailed as an exemplary infrastructure development in 2015 and a ground-breaking step forward for Africa-China relations. Today, it faces even more challenges than the ones we noted in 2018, when we first took a ride.
Between our visits, numerous crises hit one of Africa’s most progressively developing economies, including the COVID-19 pandemic and several armed conflicts, the most devastating of which was the two-year-long war in Tigray. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his government have been seeking to restructure Ethiopia’s debt to China, while also trying to convince other international lenders and donors to let Ethiopia use the money that had been earmarked for repaying several of the country’s loans to fund pandemic measures and other development-related projects. As reported by Business Day, last month, China even announced a partial cancellation of Ethiopia’s debt.
We noted in our first article on the tram that in the first 14 months of operation, the system – which was initially designed to move up to 60,000 people per hour – carried an average of 105,000–110,000 daily passengers. We noted the power troubles in 2018, which have since been joined by the theft and maintenance issues described above.
Despite the fact that the AALRT began with 41 trains on both lines, we now know that the vast majority of them are no longer in operation. According to a recent paper, only 17 train vehicles remained on both routes by the beginning of 2020 (the Blue North–South line had nine trains in operation, while the Green East–West line had eight trains). According to our weekday rush hour investigation, by the beginning of 2023, the situation is quite similar; a bit better on the Blue and worse on the Green line. The service interruptions continued in 2022 and 2023 with a further reduction in the number of cars, although the exact number of operating trains was never highlighted by the officials. Daily ridership has fallen to 56,000.
SO WHAT DID ADANACH DO TO SOLVE THISS PROBLEM????
ADANACH AND ABIY BOUGHT 30 BUSS'S WORTH 10 MILLION.... TO FIX ADDIS LIGHT RAIL IT COSTS 60M USD
ALREADY ONE BUS HAS CRASHED KILLING 6 PEOPLE
