{"id":219285,"date":"2026-01-05T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-pm-abiy-highlights-ethio-djibouti-railway-as-key-to-strengthening-national-logistics\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:47:51","slug":"ethiopia-pm-abiy-highlights-ethio-djibouti-railway-as-key-to-strengthening-national-logistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-pm-abiy-highlights-ethio-djibouti-railway-as-key-to-strengthening-national-logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: PM Abiy Highlights Ethio-Djibouti Railway As Key to Strengthening National Logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Corporation today, emphasizing the railway&#8217;s pivotal role in enhancing the country&#8217;s operational capacity and supporting Ethiopia&#8217;s ambitious development goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">During the visit, the Prime Minister noted that as Ethiopia&#8217;s economy grows, logistics continues to be a major factor influencing sustained development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He praised the railway&#8217;s progress in domestic construction efforts, highlighting how it reflects a commitment to building local&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050059.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Corporation today, emphasizing the railway&#8217;s pivotal role in enhancing the country&#8217;s operational capacity and supporting Ethiopia&#8217;s ambitious development goals. During the visit, the Prime Minister noted that as Ethiopia&#8217;s economy grows, logistics continues to be a major factor influencing sustained development. He praised the railway&#8217;s progress in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":219286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[20888,258,256,568,7131,4716,8250,7274,13233,6687,257,2918,254,7148],"class_list":["post-219285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-abiy","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti-news","tag-ethiodjibouti","tag-ethiopia","tag-highlights","tag-key","tag-logistics","tag-national","tag-news","tag-railway","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthening"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}