In the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa there has been much excitement surrounding the recent opening of a modern urban light railway or tram service. The urban railway project, which cost $475m (£308m), ...

Award-winning African journalists have praised Addis Ababa for its unprecedented development surge, describing Ethiopia's capital as a fast-evolving city marked by modern infrastructure, cultural ...

The Addis Ababa City Administration Landholding Registration and Information Agency is expanding a modern address system to standardize street names and house numbers, enhancing location accessibility ...

Ethiopia's first modern urban commuter rail service has been launched in the capital Addis Ababa. The $470M project, which was mostly funded by China's Exim Bank, is the first fully electrified train ...

Paradoxically, this prominence makes transport a policy trap within a 30-month window. The path to rapid, verifiable cuts lies elsewhere—in the city’s institutional and commercial kitchens. A clean ...

Bulldozers have knocked much of the Piassa area of Addis Ababa, erasing centuries of history that Ethiopians built there, starting with Menelik II in the late 1800s. It is now nearly unrecognisable.

Adeola Ogunlade, who recently visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, writes on his impressions of the city that has served as headquarters of the Organisation of Africa Unity (OAU) and its successor Africa ...