The mega airport will surpass the new $475-million modern light-rail system and the project will only be second to the ongoing Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project
The 32-kilometre line is expected to carry 15,000 people per hour in one direction, at a top speed of 70km/hr
The $3 million space programme launched last month is hoped to boost farming and communications
Authoritarian and landlocked it may be, but Addis Ababa will mark its last emperor's death as a model of development.
On the 1st of March 1896 Ethiopia secured its sovereignty and made history by defeating Italy, which sought to conquer and colonise the east African Empire.
