{"id":9099,"date":"2014-09-03T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2014-09-14T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T04:29:09","slug":"ethiopia-road-linking-afar-djibouti-to-be-finished-by-nov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9099","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Road linking Afar-Djibouti to be finished by Nov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/on-the-road-ethiopia-rastaphoto-00142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9101 alignleft\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/on-the-road-ethiopia-rastaphoto-00142-300x121.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/on-the-road-ethiopia-rastaphoto-00142-300x121.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/on-the-road-ethiopia-rastaphoto-00142-220x89.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/on-the-road-ethiopia-rastaphoto-00142.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) disclosed the Hawsewa-Abeala-Arbeti asphalt road, which it is constructing at the cost of a Billion Birr, is 93 percent over. The road is expected to be fully completed by the coming November.<\/p>\n<p>According to Samson Wondimu, Communication Director at the Authority, the project is fully covered by the Federal Government and the construction is carried out by the Chinese company CZJZEC.<\/p>\n<p>An Indian company, on the other hand, is carrying out the consultancy and supervision works.<\/p>\n<p>Samson noted the road links the Afar State with Djibouti and the construction is carried out in four phases. The first two parts, Serdo \u2013 Afdera and Afdera \u2013 Arbeti, are already operational.<\/p>\n<p>As the road cuts short the link from the northern part of Ethiopia to Djibouti port, it will facilitate import and export trade.<\/p>\n<p>According to Samson, the project was initially planned to be finished in three years. Yet it lagged behind schedule for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Rastateacher.com<br \/>\nSource: Ethiopian News Agency- Addis Ababa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) disclosed the Hawsewa-Abeala-Arbeti asphalt road, which it is constructing at the cost of a Billion Birr, is 93 percent over. The road is expected to be fully completed by the coming November. According to Samson Wondimu,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9099\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2872,1,1597],"tags":[149,3864,3862,3863,3868,3865,3866,4971,3858,3860,3598,3869,3859,3867,3861],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}