{"id":274210,"date":"2019-04-27T03:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T07:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiV2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvbGFjay1maW5hbmNlLWRlcmFpbHMtc2Vjb25kLXJhaWx3YXktcHJvamVjdNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:36","slug":"finance-gaps-derailed-ethiopias-second-railway-project-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274210","title":{"rendered":"Finance gaps derailed Ethiopia\u2019s second railway project plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, The Reporter Ethiopia reported that lack of finance was derailing plans for a second major railway project, after the Addis\u2013Djibouti line had already shown both the promise and the debt hangover of Chinese-built rail.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-346893\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ethiopia-Railway.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Finance gaps derailed Ethiopia\u2019s second railway project plans\" \/>\n<p>Rail is logistics destiny for a landlocked state. It is also forex drain, contractor politics, and a test of whether Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government could fund corridors without repeating opaque loan traps.<\/p>\n<p>When financing collapses, communities along surveyed routes are left with stakes in the ground and no trains. Announcement economics is not infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Kept for logistics readers, the derailed second-railway file pairs with port and dry-port fights. Ethiopia\u2019s map wants steel. Its budget often cannot pay for it cleanly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/lack-finance-derails-second-railway-project\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of finance derails second railway project&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe Ministry of Transport (MoT) disclosed that the construction of Ethiopia&#8217;s second railway project a.k.a. the Awash-Kombolcha-Woldia\/Hara Gebeya railway &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":346893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ethiopia-Railway.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19kK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601455,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274210\/revisions\/601455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}