Djibouti is the main port for all foreign aid going to Ethiopia.
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Lack of sea access has constrained Ethiopia’s ability to cater for its large population.
Truck drivers, clearing agents and activists protest over job losses in Mombasa, Kenya.
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Mega-projects tend to represent the interests of state and business elites.
A container ship docks at the Lamu Port in Kenya.
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Mega infrastructure projects entrench existing inequalities when they ignore the economic realities of vulnerable groups.
A young man watches a Standard Gauge Railway passenger train zoom over his home in Taita Taveta county, south-eastern Kenya.
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Contrary to the government’s promises of prosperity, Kenya’s mega-railway is heading down the wrong track of development.