East Africa

Transport Infrastructure

Ethiopian Airline companies indications deal for design of 'biggest airport in Africa'

Ethiopia has actually signed an agreement for the style of a new fourrunway airport that will be Africa's biggest when building and construction is finished in 2029, the head of stateowned Ethiopian Airlines stated on Friday. Found near the town of Bishoftu, around 45 km (28 miles). from the capital Addis Ababa, the airport will have capacity to. deal with 100 million travelers a year and provide parking for 270. airplane, Ethiopian Airlines' CEO Mesfin Tasew told a news. conference. Dubai-based engineering and consulting company Sidara will. style the airport, the business's director of operations Tariq. Al Qanni said. Strategies...

Transport Infrastructure

Very first vessel struck by Yemen's Houthis in 2 weeks arrives in Djibouti, manager states

A container vessel that was hit by Houthi militants off Yemen on Saturday in the first such attack in two weeks, has arrived securely in Djibouti and the strike caused no injuries or water ingress, its Greek supervisor stated on Monday. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Sunday that they targeted the Liberia-flagged MV Groton in the Gulf of Aden with ballistic missiles, claiming their first attack on shipping lanes given that Israel performed a retaliatory airstrike in Hodeidah port on July 20. The MV Groton was struck by a missile 60 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen, while en...

Transport Infrastructure

Tanzania releases $3.1 billion railway in drive to increase facilities

Tanzania on Thursday launched a 541km contemporary standard gauge train running between its administrative and industrial capitals, built by a Turkish company as part of a federal government drive to enhance transportation facilities African federal governments have actually been racing to build infrastructure. like roadways, trains and bridges, though critics have actually questioned some of the loans drawn from nations like China to fund the drive stating they are saddling future generations with financial obligation. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan flagged off the electric train services at a ceremony in the business capital Dar es Salaam, before boarding a train...

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Death toll from Ethiopia landslides could leap to 500, UN states

The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia earlier this week has increased to 257 and is expected to practically double, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Thursday. Heavy rains activated a landslide burying people in the Gofa Zone of southern Ethiopia on Sunday night and a second one on Monday engulfed those engaged in rescue efforts. The death toll is expected to rise to up to 500 people as per information received from local authorities, UNOCHA said in a report. On Tuesday, Ethiopia's National Disaster Threat Management Commission had put the death toll...

Transport Infrastructure

Uganda signs deal with UAE to build 3rd worldwide airport

Uganda has signed a pact with an organization association from the United Arab Emirates to construct a new international airport, President Yoweri Museveni's. workplace stated on Friday. The offer for the East African country's third such airport. expands the UAE's financial footprint beyond its interests in the. renewable energy and oil and gas markets. The UAE's Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry will. build the airport just outside the Kidepo National Park in the. northeast near Uganda's border with Kenya, Museveni's office. stated in a statement, without providing the expense. Building will begin in August, said Abdallah Sultan Al ....

Passenger Transportation Services

DR Congo federal government states M23 rebels, Rwanda disrupting regional air traffic

Democratic Republic of Congo's federal government on Monday implicated M23 rebels and Rwandan forces backing them of sending out false navigation signals to disrupt air traffic over the country's eastern North Kivu province, where Congo's army is locked in fighting with the M23. The Tutsi-led M23 have been waging a fresh revolt in the huge main African nation's militia-plagued east since 2022. Military efforts to push them back have actually magnified over the past year with using drones and aircraft. Congo authorities, the United Nations, the United States and other Western governments have actually accused Rwanda of backing the group....

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Eritrea suspends Ethiopian Airline companies flights, airline company states

Eritrean authorities have actually suspended all flights by Ethiopian Airlines to the East African country reliable Sept. 30, the airline company said on Wednesday. Flights from Ethiopia to Eritrea had actually resumed in 2018 after 20 years, following a peace offer between the 2 neighbours that made Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed a Nobel peace prize a year later. Ethiopian Airlines has actually received a notification from the Eritrean Civil Aviation Authority through a letter ... showing the suspension of all Ethiopian Airlines flights to Eritrea, effective September 30, 2024, the airline said in a statement published on its main...