THE FIRST modern light rail line in Sub-Saharan Africa was inaugurated on September 20, when passenger operations began on Addis Ababa Line 1.
CHINA Railway Engineering Corporation has started work to electrify the 34.3km two-line light rail network under construction in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
CONSTRUCTION has reportedly been suspended on a 468km railway in Venezuela because the government has failed to pay the Chinese contractor for work already carried out on the project.