Ethiopia Builds Outlet
Highways
Story Filed: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 5:16 PM EST
ADDIS ABABA (April 4) XINHUA - Land-locked Ethiopia is trying to build road linkage
with ports of neighboring countries, an official of the Ethiopian Road Authority (ERA) has
said.
The highways that link Ethiopia to ports of Djibouti, Berbera and Sudan are either
maintained or under construction, the latest issue of magazine Efoyta quoted Debebe Gizaw,
information and public relations service manager with the ERA as saying.
Ethiopia accessed the Djibouti port through two highways and a railway, Debebe said,
adding the 40-kilometer Gelafe-Boke road was under maintenance at a cost of over 4.4
million birr (about 500,000 U.S. dollars).
The 185-kilometer Gondar-Metema road, which gives Ethiopia an easy access to the Port
Sudan, has completed 115 kilometers, he said.
The European Union was finalizing its study on the construction of the
Harar-Jijiga-Wuchale road leading to the port of Berbera, Somalia,
he added.
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