The revival of the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway line

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In eastern Africa, you can now reliably take the train from Ethiopia's capital to neighbouring Djibouti. The new railway line - built and paid for by China - went into operation a few weeks ago. Over a century ago, the French had already built a rail line between the two African nations. It essentially stopped worked 10 years ago, but a few cars kept running. Now, in cities where the old line stopped, expectations for the new one are high. Our correspondents report.
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  • @zembaba8030
    @zembaba80306 жыл бұрын

    westerns don't like when we are growing

  • @mateusmahumane8990

    @mateusmahumane8990

    6 жыл бұрын

    I was surprised to hear the gentleman interviewee saying that Ethiopians don't like the Chinese investment. Can the Ethiopians get the same investments fro France?

  • @zembaba8030

    @zembaba8030

    6 жыл бұрын

    the door is open for France too as long as they put their post colonialism thoughts in the grave. Do you know why they care about this news ? They thought that they are the guardian of Djibouti

  • @abdullahiahmed3425

    @abdullahiahmed3425

    6 жыл бұрын

    Zembaba we are Somali we don't need France or Ethiopia

  • @abdullahiahmed3425

    @abdullahiahmed3425

    6 жыл бұрын

    Zembaba and afar

  • @zembaba8030

    @zembaba8030

    6 жыл бұрын

    but still somalia is in crisis , ethiopia were helping your country ;figthing al shebab

  • @ambessashield9360
    @ambessashield93606 жыл бұрын

    Ethiopia and Djibouti focus on development

  • @williamwooten2677

    @williamwooten2677

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jonte Ded amen

  • @terryyoung5135
    @terryyoung51354 жыл бұрын

    Some Frenchmen still missed their old days of being as Africa's master and have a feeling of being lost when they found out chinese have overtaken them there,so they said bad things about China.

  • @cinnamonstar808

    @cinnamonstar808

    4 жыл бұрын

    "China lend 70%... it means Ethiopia paid 30% down & financed the balanced 😂" Europe is swallowed in debt ..way over their GDP but they have never covered any new project or building with those words. They use "investment, partnership" etc. . If you pay for lunch for African friend. 🎤"foreign aid fed you " ..how you Africans feel about being support by foreign investment? WESTERN MEDIA is ridiculous. placate their true feelings of a hater.

  • @Isochest

    @Isochest

    10 ай бұрын

    I dont think the French would care much,

  • @MichaelMan-pz9od

    @MichaelMan-pz9od

    7 ай бұрын

    😂yes, maybe somefeeling about old Vitenam

  • @jerrypaul9440
    @jerrypaul94406 жыл бұрын

    It seens that french miss the colonel period much.

  • @Ruby-dc3wp

    @Ruby-dc3wp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Freanch never colonized Ethiopia

  • @elahgast

    @elahgast

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Ruby-dc3wp ask kongo

  • @ahmedikawika2204

    @ahmedikawika2204

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Ruby-dc3wp only Liberia and Ethiopia didn't get invaded (colonized as they say)

  • @revol148

    @revol148

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ahmedikawika2204 so the Italians didn't invade Ethiopia in the 1930's.....are you quite sure ?

  • @ahmedikawika2204

    @ahmedikawika2204

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@revol148 idk Google said only Liberia and Ethiopia didn't get (colonized)

  • @NextSound170
    @NextSound1706 жыл бұрын

    Forward Mother Africa

  • @Dragons_Armory
    @Dragons_Armory6 жыл бұрын

    Love Ethiopia !!!

  • @juleth3739
    @juleth37396 жыл бұрын

    ethiopia is growing so fast.....just became the bigggest economy in east africa

  • @samreynolds3789

    @samreynolds3789

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because of OUTSIDERS You ALL INVITED IN, to TAKE OVER!

  • @BeyondBorders00
    @BeyondBorders004 жыл бұрын

    This is a great topic to cover. Please post more like this in the future. Excellent!!!

  • @mulusawalter779
    @mulusawalter7794 жыл бұрын

    Proud of you my good neighbors Ethiopians,from Kenya

  • @bircruz555
    @bircruz5554 жыл бұрын

    "Built and paid for by China?" How about "Built and financed by China?" Shading the language. Eh? The pompous French never disappoint, the Condescending tone and language and all! The French have no footprint in Ethiopia. Nada.

  • @Ruby-dc3wp

    @Ruby-dc3wp

    4 жыл бұрын

    France never colonized Ethiopia

  • @muffinfighter3680
    @muffinfighter36802 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Ghana to Ethiopia and Djibouti ❤❤❤

  • @hadaskebed5491
    @hadaskebed54916 жыл бұрын

    Happy to see this .

  • @tonychen1515
    @tonychen15156 жыл бұрын

    Mmm....sour, all this show smelling sour

  • @Isochest

    @Isochest

    5 жыл бұрын

    But Ethiopia and China have managed this well. Don't blame Western people just our probably human flesh eating so called "elites"

  • @Deontjie
    @Deontjie5 жыл бұрын

    I hope Africa can afford this Chinese line. Kenya is livid with the amount the have to pay back to Chinese.

  • @Isochest
    @Isochest5 жыл бұрын

    This should make Ethiopian Highways safer!

  • @ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali
    @ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali6 жыл бұрын

    Investing in abroad decisions by China has less bureaucracy bottlenecks than the foreign investment decisions by the western countries. That is the reason many African countries contact China for big project investments in their countries.

  • @revol148

    @revol148

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan haji Ali true: most western investors would rather leave it to the Chinese to get involved in economically questionable projects such as this over priced railway - the westerners prefer safe projects like the extraction of oil where the returns are greater.

  • @DerpEye

    @DerpEye

    3 жыл бұрын

    China's investment in Africa is a double edged sword. They are buying the continent. The chinese neocolonization is much worse than the old western one, believe me. They build, yes, but almost no country has ever been able to repay the chinese back. So the infrastructures and land becomes chinese property.

  • @joeawk

    @joeawk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DerpEye become Chinese property. Could the Chinese send it back to China? Can't Africans use it?

  • @RaghunandanReddyC

    @RaghunandanReddyC

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joeawk how did colonialism work? It would be similar. Ask Sri Lanka.

  • @joeawk

    @joeawk

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RaghunandanReddyC debt trap? Go deeper. Look at the total loans of Sri Lanka. Look at how they have used the loans. See the sources, from whom the loans were taken. You then can stop your debt trap stupidity. Ohhh, colonialism. That's robbery. Get yourself right.

  • @yonasat6740
    @yonasat67406 жыл бұрын

    Dire Dawa is not a village . it's a city

  • @warsame2901
    @warsame29016 жыл бұрын

    Vive Djibouti Vive Ethiopia Vive China

  • @yaoguoli3955
    @yaoguoli39555 жыл бұрын

    Connections lead to prosperity.

  • @A.D.540
    @A.D.5406 жыл бұрын

    Ethiopia steel has the railway that was built by France before WW2 ? It going to be used in ethiopia museum as part of history to future generation.

  • @CarpsterKing

    @CarpsterKing

    4 жыл бұрын

    Erect a Museum to remind the future generation of how the west colonized and plundered the whole African continent and left the countries poor and desolate ... Show the enslavement of African countries by western nations and to remind them NEVER to trust the Europeans and US again.....

  • @TheBebelehaut
    @TheBebelehaut3 жыл бұрын

    Does anybody understand what those two were talking about at the end?

  • @homegrown4126
    @homegrown41264 жыл бұрын

    It is Nice to have this train . I travel tooo much time thank you

  • @gtctv7000
    @gtctv7000 Жыл бұрын

    1:00 "his home village Dire Dawa"... VILLAGE???? the place has 500k inhabitants.. thats bigger than toulouse.

  • @yang5159
    @yang51595 жыл бұрын

    Not cheap quality goods but top best trains township at 30% of Western cost and time West don't have capability to build trains cross African continent

  • @revol148

    @revol148

    4 жыл бұрын

    +Jim Sia "west don't have capacity to build trains" - well clearly the entire continent of Africa doesn't either !

  • @porkysharma8423

    @porkysharma8423

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@revol148 clearly you have never been to the African continent it seems.

  • @revol148

    @revol148

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@porkysharma8423 Apart from Mauritania, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia,Djibouti,Burkina Faso, Ivory coast, Togo,Benin, Ghana,Senegal,Gambia,Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania and Uganda you'r basically correct !

  • @brahimbmzo490
    @brahimbmzo490 Жыл бұрын

    It is my first time hearing that France built a railroad system in one of it is former colonies. Usually, it is a British thing.

  • @fredpeterarope3240
    @fredpeterarope3240 Жыл бұрын

    Can i ask something, what happened to Victor the driver who was the train pilot of the old train?

  • @amanuelzelalem7448
    @amanuelzelalem74484 жыл бұрын

    Dire Dawa is not a village or town, it's a city.

  • @barbarbarbar2
    @barbarbarbar26 жыл бұрын

    The old railway should transport kettle

  • @paultremblay4836
    @paultremblay48366 жыл бұрын

    Ethiopian should put more Flowers,more plants, public bathroom with suage system in the city.

  • @mateusmahumane8990

    @mateusmahumane8990

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes, but show them the money first before you make the suggestion.

  • @somalisavage3714

    @somalisavage3714

    6 жыл бұрын

    Paul Tremblay U want some flowers?

  • @alazar4391

    @alazar4391

    6 жыл бұрын

    You are right. we have a lot to work on. thanks!

  • @blackstar19gammaburst85

    @blackstar19gammaburst85

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@somalisavage3714 by his grave?

  • @user-nr7rs3mq3m
    @user-nr7rs3mq3m6 жыл бұрын

    🇨🇳🇨🇳

  • @acunamatata6531
    @acunamatata65315 жыл бұрын

    thank you china

  • @sami71816
    @sami718165 жыл бұрын

    France took DJBOUITY for 100 year form ethiopia but they make it their port forever

  • @dinisrealm3240

    @dinisrealm3240

    4 жыл бұрын

    Samuel Alemayehu , in your world everything belongs to Ethiopia. Djibouti & Ogadenia were never Ethiopian

  • @ykmvp1870

    @ykmvp1870

    3 жыл бұрын

    Djiboutians are ethnic Somalis

  • @ggagg57
    @ggagg575 жыл бұрын

    we understand

  • @zat0076
    @zat00764 жыл бұрын

    you didnt help to upgrade, china did and u are complaining..smh

  • @yvng4697
    @yvng46975 жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏

  • @ALWH1314
    @ALWH13143 жыл бұрын

    This economist is bias and wrong, Europe and America are also in need for infrastructure investment but they won’t buy from China. Case and point, Boston purchased Chinese light rail and violated ‘national security ‘. Therefore Africa is a natural market for China. Also, to build infrastructure is at Africa countries’ discretion, unlike French or Britain, China didn’t occupy Africa and force any country to build anything or have to buy from China. I’m sure French and German’s strong fast train companies are more than capable building the Africa rail road, maybe a lot more expensive though. As for debt trap theory, Gyude Moore stated at Paulson Institute ‘China forgave, restructured or extended loans 87 times since 2000 and traded equity for loan one time at Sri Lanka. Africa leaders are smart enough to choose.’ These loans and investments is a small price for China to gain international political support and access to a growing market without western god complex.

  • @pukichorpac2759
    @pukichorpac2759 Жыл бұрын

    Now it looks like city bus, crowded by controband sellers.

  • @acunamatata6531
    @acunamatata65315 жыл бұрын

    forward

  • @tonnyanthonys2159
    @tonnyanthonys21594 жыл бұрын

    Ethiopia wasted a lot energy fighting Italians, and failed to get hold on the territory that Geographically belongs to them like the punt land and Eritrea

  • @baydhabo72

    @baydhabo72

    Жыл бұрын

    DayDreaming 😂😂 Land of Punt is Land of Somalis & Eritrea was Never yours, never had & will be yours Zoothopian!!

  • @Dihorse371
    @Dihorse3715 жыл бұрын

    Win-win & value for money. Why r the westerners so sour?

  • @Isochest
    @Isochest5 жыл бұрын

    It's a pity the rail staff of the old narrow gauge railway aren't retrained for the new railway. The new railway will take trucks off the road and decrease emissions and oil imports. The other spinoff is renewable electricity 100% clean and indigenous for the Ethiopian people.

  • @nousername5673

    @nousername5673

    2 жыл бұрын

    True. Ethiopia and Djibouti have immense geothermal and solar potential with Ethiopia also having lots of hydro potential and exploiting it.

  • @user-qk6cb1yh8m
    @user-qk6cb1yh8m4 жыл бұрын

    If this a French channel, why is this in English

  • @deconstructionreclaimingth5885
    @deconstructionreclaimingth58856 жыл бұрын

    it was finance by Chinese investment, they will be paid back. It was not free.

  • @paierwang

    @paierwang

    6 жыл бұрын

    should it be free?not fair ,right? china do business by equality,we are not westerners

  • @revol148

    @revol148

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@paierwang you Chinese are screwing the Africans even more than us Europeans - you are even more racist towards the blacks than even we are !

  • @user-sj2vy5qj3p
    @user-sj2vy5qj3p4 жыл бұрын

    It's a nuisance not a revival, tu comprend?

  • @laopang91362
    @laopang913625 жыл бұрын

    Chase after the new cheese!

  • @tiyamichael7473
    @tiyamichael74735 жыл бұрын

    Tegorarasu staskenu.😥🤔

  • @AfrikanTribesman
    @AfrikanTribesman3 жыл бұрын

    That it's a loan means it's financed by the tax payers...but no, let's make it sound like the Ethiopians have been done a great favor. They've been given a railroad network by China. Let's make that clear as we start the segment...it makes for better news.

  • @michaelsebuala1895
    @michaelsebuala18953 жыл бұрын

    congratulations african nations ..

  • @capdriving
    @capdriving5 жыл бұрын

    confuse why china not france or british

  • @michelng5630

    @michelng5630

    4 жыл бұрын

    Collin Huey France has the technology, but can’t compete with China. England has neither the technology or the capability to help finance the project.

  • @mesfineshetu1603
    @mesfineshetu1603 Жыл бұрын

    We Ethiopian do more with Chinese Africa will bast place for living

  • @bernardtan9058
    @bernardtan90584 жыл бұрын

    Talking nonsense and outdated views !!

  • @skinnypeoples3650
    @skinnypeoples36502 жыл бұрын

    🇮🇳🇮🇳

  • @nousername5673

    @nousername5673

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wrong flag. 🇪🇹

  • @rohitmishra9517
    @rohitmishra95173 жыл бұрын

    The old railway line , they just dumped ??? I think it is very strange act. China could have overhauled that old line with new line and electrification, it could have been much more cheaper.

  • @ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali
    @ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali6 жыл бұрын

    It is a fact.

  • @ruslialias7064
    @ruslialias70648 ай бұрын

    Years of western colonization what did they did in africa nothing .

  • @benassefa62
    @benassefa625 жыл бұрын

    Jean-Joseph Boillot said Ethiopian authorities are a minority and China does get a bad image out of that! Sir Jean-Joseph in your stay in Ethiopia you obviously haven’t learned anything besides strengthening your assumptions that you’ve held on for the past 35years. And how on earth does France channel choose to speak to this guy with speaking disabilities?

  • @acunamatata6531
    @acunamatata65315 жыл бұрын

    vive la France est l'ethiopie

  • @theanswer3021

    @theanswer3021

    5 жыл бұрын

    DEEZ NUTZ

  • @DerpEye
    @DerpEye3 жыл бұрын

    It's very nice of the chinese to build the railroad. The question is: what did they want in exchange? China is buying out africa step by step.

  • @helpme5ksubscriberspotalld439
    @helpme5ksubscriberspotalld4398 ай бұрын

    Hi all dear❤❤❤❤❤❤