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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westerns don't like when we are growing
@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
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
6 жыл бұрын
Zembaba we are Somali we don't need France or Ethiopia
@abdullahiahmed3425
6 жыл бұрын
Zembaba and afar
@zembaba8030
6 жыл бұрын
but still somalia is in crisis , ethiopia were helping your country ;figthing al shebab
Ethiopia and Djibouti focus on development
@williamwooten2677
6 жыл бұрын
Jonte Ded amen
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
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
10 ай бұрын
I dont think the French would care much,
@MichaelMan-pz9od
7 ай бұрын
😂yes, maybe somefeeling about old Vitenam
It seens that french miss the colonel period much.
@Ruby-dc3wp
4 жыл бұрын
Freanch never colonized Ethiopia
@elahgast
4 жыл бұрын
@@Ruby-dc3wp ask kongo
@ahmedikawika2204
4 жыл бұрын
@@Ruby-dc3wp only Liberia and Ethiopia didn't get invaded (colonized as they say)
@revol148
4 жыл бұрын
@@ahmedikawika2204 so the Italians didn't invade Ethiopia in the 1930's.....are you quite sure ?
@ahmedikawika2204
4 жыл бұрын
@@revol148 idk Google said only Liberia and Ethiopia didn't get (colonized)
Forward Mother Africa
Love Ethiopia !!!
ethiopia is growing so fast.....just became the bigggest economy in east africa
@samreynolds3789
2 жыл бұрын
Because of OUTSIDERS You ALL INVITED IN, to TAKE OVER!
This is a great topic to cover. Please post more like this in the future. Excellent!!!
Proud of you my good neighbors Ethiopians,from Kenya
"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
4 жыл бұрын
France never colonized Ethiopia
Greetings from Ghana to Ethiopia and Djibouti ❤❤❤
Happy to see this .
Mmm....sour, all this show smelling sour
@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"
I hope Africa can afford this Chinese line. Kenya is livid with the amount the have to pay back to Chinese.
This should make Ethiopian Highways safer!
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
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
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
3 жыл бұрын
@@DerpEye become Chinese property. Could the Chinese send it back to China? Can't Africans use it?
@RaghunandanReddyC
2 жыл бұрын
@@joeawk how did colonialism work? It would be similar. Ask Sri Lanka.
@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.
Dire Dawa is not a village . it's a city
Vive Djibouti Vive Ethiopia Vive China
Connections lead to prosperity.
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
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.....
Does anybody understand what those two were talking about at the end?
It is Nice to have this train . I travel tooo much time thank you
1:00 "his home village Dire Dawa"... VILLAGE???? the place has 500k inhabitants.. thats bigger than toulouse.
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
4 жыл бұрын
+Jim Sia "west don't have capacity to build trains" - well clearly the entire continent of Africa doesn't either !
@porkysharma8423
3 жыл бұрын
@@revol148 clearly you have never been to the African continent it seems.
@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 !
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.
Can i ask something, what happened to Victor the driver who was the train pilot of the old train?
Dire Dawa is not a village or town, it's a city.
The old railway should transport kettle
Ethiopian should put more Flowers,more plants, public bathroom with suage system in the city.
@mateusmahumane8990
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, but show them the money first before you make the suggestion.
@somalisavage3714
6 жыл бұрын
Paul Tremblay U want some flowers?
@alazar4391
6 жыл бұрын
You are right. we have a lot to work on. thanks!
@blackstar19gammaburst85
5 жыл бұрын
@@somalisavage3714 by his grave?
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thank you china
France took DJBOUITY for 100 year form ethiopia but they make it their port forever
@dinisrealm3240
4 жыл бұрын
Samuel Alemayehu , in your world everything belongs to Ethiopia. Djibouti & Ogadenia were never Ethiopian
@ykmvp1870
3 жыл бұрын
Djiboutians are ethnic Somalis
we understand
you didnt help to upgrade, china did and u are complaining..smh
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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.
Now it looks like city bus, crowded by controband sellers.
forward
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
Жыл бұрын
DayDreaming 😂😂 Land of Punt is Land of Somalis & Eritrea was Never yours, never had & will be yours Zoothopian!!
Win-win & value for money. Why r the westerners so sour?
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
2 жыл бұрын
True. Ethiopia and Djibouti have immense geothermal and solar potential with Ethiopia also having lots of hydro potential and exploiting it.
If this a French channel, why is this in English
it was finance by Chinese investment, they will be paid back. It was not free.
@paierwang
6 жыл бұрын
should it be free?not fair ,right? china do business by equality,we are not westerners
@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 !
It's a nuisance not a revival, tu comprend?
Chase after the new cheese!
Tegorarasu staskenu.😥🤔
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.
congratulations african nations ..
confuse why china not france or british
@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.
We Ethiopian do more with Chinese Africa will bast place for living
Talking nonsense and outdated views !!
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@nousername5673
2 жыл бұрын
Wrong flag. 🇪🇹
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.
It is a fact.
Years of western colonization what did they did in africa nothing .
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?
vive la France est l'ethiopie
@theanswer3021
5 жыл бұрын
DEEZ NUTZ
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.
Hi all dear❤❤❤❤❤❤