{"id":279038,"date":"2019-06-16T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vZXRoaW9waWEtaW5hdWd1cmF0ZXMtdG9sbC1yb2FkLWxpbmtpbmctd2l0aC1kamlib3V0aS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:14","slug":"ethiopia-inaugurated-a-220-kilometer-toll-road-linking-dire-dawa-toward-the-djibouti-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279038","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia inaugurated a 220-kilometer toll road linking Dire Dawa toward the Djibouti corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 June 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that Ethiopia inaugurated a 220-kilometer toll road linking the eastern city of Dire Dawa toward the Djibouti trade corridor, aiming to ease import-export logistics.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia inaugurated a 220-kilometer toll road linking Dire Dawa toward the Djibouti corridor\" \/>\n<p>Officials presented the toll highway as infrastructure for freight that still depends on the Djibouti port for most of Ethiopia\u2019s overseas trade.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as infrastructure archive, the New Business Ethiopia report dates the June 2019 eastern toll-road opening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopia-inaugurates-toll-road-linking-with-djibouti\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia inaugurates toll road linking with Djibouti&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaWith the aim of easing its import-export trade logistics, Ethiopia today officially inaugurates 220 kilometers toll road that links eastern part of Ethiopia&#8217;s city \u2013 D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"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-279038","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\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aAC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279038","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=279038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755236,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279038\/revisions\/755236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}