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July-commuter rail infrastructure coming up nicely....      Addis: truly, the Capital of Africa. Nairobi: The capital of bickering. TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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2 weeks ago:  TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/17/2013 Posts: 4,693 Location: Earth
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I feel depressed now.Ethiopia has placed an order for trams?? Shame on us. 
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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Moyale- Addis Highway, February 2014.  TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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Google earth image of the 80km Addis-Adama (Nazareth) Expressway (superhighway)  They are building another superhighway as part of the Moyale-Addis highway. Mimi nauliseko, Kenya tutaweseko? TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/17/2013 Posts: 4,693 Location: Earth
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simonkabz wrote:Google earth image of the 80km Addis-Adama (Nazareth) Expressway (superhighway) They are building another superhighway as part of the Moyale-Addis highway. Mimi nauliseko, Kenya tutaweseko? We are busy filling potholes. Have you ever been to Industrial area during a downpour? Crocodiles emerge from their caves to swim. I also saw reflector wearing railway staff carry out body search on multitudes of standing folk, who were waiting to board the train, using that simple hand gadget! That's when it hit me that we have a looOOOng way to go.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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The Grand Scheme:  TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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kysse wrote:simonkabz wrote:Google earth image of the 80km Addis-Adama (Nazareth) Expressway (superhighway) They are building another superhighway as part of the Moyale-Addis highway. Mimi nauliseko, Kenya tutaweseko? We are busy filling potholes. Have you ever been to Industrial area during a downpour? Crocodiles emerge from their caves to swim. I also saw reflector wearing railway staff carry out body search on multitudes of standing folk, who were waiting to board the train, using that simple hand gadget! That's when it hit me that we have a looOOOng way to go.  We boast of more paved roads in the entire EA region yet most of them zimejaa machimo! TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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Interesting views on an Ethiopian discussion thread.......... ........from a Kenyan: Quote:Some of the set-backs of democracy. I can wake up tomorrow and sue the govt to not carry out a project and the court would halt the project to listen to my case till it's resolved, to give the govt go ahead. this is what happens in Kenya. ........from an Ethiopian in the diaspora (very much expected)  Quote:Big up Kenya, you got free media and up and coming democracy. Trust me there is no short cut to that. We are a disaster waiting to happen. Nothing to be envious about. TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/17/2011 Posts: 627 Location: Mbui-Nzau, Kikumbulyu
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simonkabz wrote:Interesting views on an Ethiopian discussion thread.......... ........from a Kenyan: Quote:Some of the set-backs of democracy. I can wake up tomorrow and sue the govt to not carry out a project and the court would halt the project to listen to my case till it's resolved, to give the govt go ahead. this is what happens in Kenya. ........from an Ethiopian in the diaspora (very much expected) Quote:Big up Kenya, you got free media  and up and coming democracy. Trust me there is no short cut to that. We are a disaster waiting to happen. Nothing to be envious about.  What free media!??the ones owned by aged dictators...politicians...and international racketeers---"N" who in turn employ cheerleaders of terrorist..sadist pen assasins...nothing free..no freedom until the media is free from foolishness and mediocrity...until the media knows what is good for the US may not be necessarily heaven for Kwinya...hii media freedom can it be put in sufurias and be served as kitoweo ya ugali?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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simonkabz wrote:2 weeks ago: @Poundfoolish remember in some thread when u argued that what are Ethiopians about to do with all that power? This is it. When you see GOK pumping so much into Energy this is what its meant for, unlocking Nrb poundfoolish= On Monday, December 17, 2012 7:13:06 AM wrote:murchr wrote:poundfoolish wrote:Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:guru267 wrote:InnovateGuy wrote:Food for thought: After completion, the Renaissance Dam is set to supply 6,000 MW. That's approximately six times Kenya's current capacity! A round of  to the Ethiopians! Ethiopia has a GDP per capita that is less than half that of Kenya why do they need 6times our electricity?? Besides i have more faith in Kenya's energy plan! Because socialism simply doesn't work.. By 2030 Kenya plans to have 21,000MW connected to the grid! By 2025 there should be 15,000MW hooked up to the grid! By 2020 Kenya would have hooked 8,500MW to the grid! By 2016 we should have 4,500MW hooked to our grid! The results of a totalitarian regime. They are not thinking very clearly and coz it's being financed freely by the Chinese its all good. They will soon realize the cost of free lunch This was my concern Bw. Murchr..... Do they really really seriously have their priorities right? If Kenya will have 21000MW by 2030 what is 6000MW surely? People, forgive me if I will sound personal but my perception is that we think we have enough power just because we can switch on a light bulb and watch tv but we have nothing. No serious investor will want to run operations here with the kind of perennial shortage of elec that we experience. Ethiopia is just positioning its self. Infact that 7kMW is still not enough to service a population of 90M people. They might just need to buy power from us in the future. South Africa right now has an electric capacity of over 40 000MW and they plan to double that by 2026. Why do u think SA is the obvious choice for doing business? If we dont get it right in the energy sector then all these minerals that we are discovering will have to be processed elsewhere, if that happens we will be as "good" as DRC. My biggest question is priorities.. Do they have their priorities set? Yes the country has 70 million earthlings.. but Addis has only 3million pple.. the other 'major cities' have hundreds of thousands.. the rest are scattered in rural areas. What is their rural electrification strategy.... If you ask me.. the chinese have seen some materials.. they figure they need it processed.. they offer a loan to build a dam for elec.. they get what they need.. you get what you want...a superfluous project In other news "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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wanyee wrote: simonkabz wrote:Interesting views on an Ethiopian discussion thread.......... ........from a Kenyan: Quote:Some of the set-backs of democracy. I can wake up tomorrow and sue the govt to not carry out a project and the court would halt the project to listen to my case till it's resolved, to give the govt go ahead. this is what happens in Kenya. ........from an Ethiopian in the diaspora (very much expected) Quote:Big up Kenya, you got free media and up and coming democracy. Trust me there is no short cut to that. We are a disaster waiting to happen. Nothing to be envious about. What free media!??the ones owned by aged dictators...politicians...and international racketeers---"N" who in turn employ cheerleaders of terrorist..sadist pen assasins...nothing free..no freedom until the media is free from foolishness and mediocrity...until the media knows what is good for the US may not be necessarily heaven for Kwinya...hii media freedom can it be put in sufurias and be served as kitoweo ya ugali? The thinking of a diasporan is normally very strange, kinda out of touch with reality, both local and on the international sphere (global politics). A perfect situation would be a blend of the Etiopian and Kenyan models, as alluded by the two commentators. Ethiopia has one national TV (ETV), govt-owned and a few other regional (ethnic) TV stations. They have ONE (imwe) Govt-owned mobile telcom company, Ethio-tel. That is one area they are doing very badly, as well as the banking sector (pure dictatorship). TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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Jibe III dam accross river Omo (flows into L Turkana) is 80% complete. It is expected to produce 1800mw of electricity and to be used for a major irrigation project downstream. Note, this is not the GERD.     Tutawesa?? TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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Hatuwezi, if this was Kenya, the media, activists Mpigs and judges would be working together to drown the project at its inception. Midomo zetu ndio ndefu. "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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murchr wrote:Hatuwezi, if this was Kenya, the media, activists Mpigs and judges would be working together to drown the project at its inception. Midomo zetu ndio ndefu. That aside, the Gibe III dam project is costing 1.5b Euros (close to Ksh 200b). That would be fought to the death. TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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An Ethiopian article.....wanatujua Quote:Ethiopia and Kenya are in a race to complete ambitious railway projects, but while Addis Ababa is in a frenzy of construction its East African neighbour may have hit the buffers.
Ethiopia's projects are far more advanced – they benefit from the wholesale support of the government – while Kenya's are lagging behind.
The railway to link South Sudan to the port at Lamu lacks investment, and the development of the new standard gauge line is bogged down in debates about how the contract was awarded. TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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simonkabz wrote:Moyale- Addis Highway, February 2014. And the road is marked. They got value for their money.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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madollar wrote:We should be careful not to start sounding like our southern ndugus the tanzanians who cannot do anything without comparing themselves to kenya Quote:Tiny,very tiny and an extrememly tiny terminal! We should have taken Mwakyembe to Jomo Kenyatta Int. Airport. I am now convinced that Kenyans are more serious than us! TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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