Ethiopian Airlines officially started a $12.5 billion construction project for what officials say will be Africa’s biggest airport when completed in 2030 in the Ethiopian town of Bishoftu.
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Poor countey cant even food its own citizens, now trying to impress the rich by building useless projects.
Well done Ethiopian people, absolutely amazing. Love from Kenya 🇰🇪🔥
Your post and Your thumbnail is not same. Why?
Wana uhabeshi wako na maendeleo ya maana,hapa kenya maedeleo ni pole pole sababu kila kitu lazima siasa zihusike
Reuters, what does youth unemployment have to do with building the airport? Why are you always injecting politics into the good news? Of course, Returs are funded by British and American intelligence.
This headline is being framed as “Africa’s largest airport” and a symbol of progress, but the public discussion is skipping the most important issues: human rights, displacement, and public debt risk.
I’m from the area affected. The planned site is densely populated, and many families’ survival is tied directly to their land. In a country with limited social safety nets, losing land is not a small inconvenience—it can mean losing the foundation of life. If this project proceeds through displacement without free, informed community consent, fair compensation and real livelihood restoration, it will not be “development”; it will be harm rebranded. For that reason, it should be stopped at this site.
Economically, a $12.5B debt-heavy mega-project raises serious opportunity-cost questions while Ethiopia faces urgent priorities: food security, basic infrastructure, healthcare access, regional transport, and peace/security. If aviation capacity is needed, why not transparently compare alternatives, including upgrading existing capacity, before building another airport 40–45 km from Addis Ababa?
If this project is truly beneficial, then publish full disclosure: the feasibility/ROI study, financing terms and guarantees, procurement contracts, land acquisition maps, number of households affected, resettlement/livelihood restoration plans, and independent human-rights oversight. Without that transparency, people are right to fear this is a prestige project that shifts costs onto ordinary citizens and vulnerable communities.
Go to school and get a job by 2030 🤷🏽♂️ stop complaining
GOOOOOO ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹 🎊🥳🎉🎉
Miratu lire
When Abiy's regime falls, I reckon the project will be at risk because Fano and TPLF have deep seated grievances on allocation of budget, investment as well as being politically and culturally marginalized and therefore they will most likely shelf the project!!
I thought they had the biggest Airport in Africa. These people are too ambitious
makes sense, Ethiopian is the biggest airline of Africa, but Bole is too small and in the middle of an urban area
Good luck Ethiopia… Love from India.
Africa should be the most advanced and richest continent if all humans originated from Africa… why is poverty so bad in Africa then?
Kenya already plateaued with corruption. Ethiopia will be the giant in this region
A lot of black Americans may be visiting ethiopia very soon
This is another great achievement after biggest dam in Africa 🎉 congratulations Ethiopia! God bless for prosperity!
Traveled with Ethiopian Airlines and was impressed, they're a very good company
I'm sure there won't be any corruption…
Now Egipto will say it’s illegal to built an airport because of the Nilo river will escape by aitplane
Ethiopia is really advancing fast. There is nuclear power plant project coming up soon. Many mega projects unseen before. The Prime Minister is very visionary and hard-working.
Love from Kenya 🇰🇪
Why your Post and Your thumbnail doesn't match?????
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I would love to see a prospering Ethiopia, a more stable nation in the horn of Africa
You make us shine! Proud of you!
While our president here in Kenya is leasing ours.
It is not surprising you choosing not to show the design and why you create a false narrative here.
Nobody cares about legacy media. You are vanishing
We have made an important project on our water when we realized the GERD dam, we've launched to realize the project on our air. But we will win the battle against poverty for once and for all when we start laying our project on our soil and beneath the soil. My country has an immense potential.
Wtf is that thumbnail?
Ethopia is only country in horn of Africa who have democracy, stable, government and most importantly it's one of the oldest christian countries…
Chinese Airport?….
Ethiopia will become the airline hub of africa