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Good job Ethiopian's!

I stile would not give credit to Dectator since N korea has better street and lights in teh city until Meles gives freedom to people of Ethiopia!

Until Meles is accountable and fair to all ethnics ...

"Build the Roads" and everything else will follow

16 thousend km in one year Oh my Gog where have we been for the last 3 thousand years

Did i see Elias Kifle showing off the one and only 5 km road one "nation" in north east Africa managed to build in 18 years. sorry, I forgot the name of the country, I have to search it in dead list and get back to you.

where is the roads for our region ..u pigs this is why we dont trust habesha when they talk about ethiopianism fuck it all we want our full independence

. . .I criticized for wrongdoings, but for these constructed roads and bridges, I can say this is Good News!. . .good news for farmers and businesses. . .

Great Job!! We need more roads in the coming years too with non-stop!! God bless you all who participated in this marvellous job of building the nation. Thumbs up!! for Ethiopian Road Authority and other co-participants!!

Peace!!

Any improvement in infrastrature is a big plus for the economy of the country. my only concern is who is behind these massive construction - I hope nepotism is not playing big time here too. Or the job is given to the construction company regardless of who is the owners - only to the ones who deliver the ending result on time and cost effective?

Weldone !

go ethiopia go!!!! errer belu asmaruu, eritrooo!!

The next program should include all weather asphalted roads and airports in the coffee producing areas of west and south-west Ethiopia and the Ogaden. I have in mind towns like Assosa, Gambella, Moyale and others.
I remember our geography teacher saying that Ethiopia should have a road system that somewhat looks like a spider’s web. I hope that the railway system we heard recently will also be a reality in the immediate future and it will not remain a simple blueprint.

Don’t be mislead by the showoff politics. Most rural community and economically resourceful sites in the country are still inaccessible. They are telling us the show case roads constructed by loan money. These roads are neither the result of a growing economy nor an integral part of a coordinated infrastructural development. It is simply a means of corruption. Who is benefiting by these? Of course, Weyane officials through EFFORT.

all ethiopians despite their political stand are happy to see the country investing its meager resource on developing its backward road network and water resource and give due credit where credit is due. but we will contiue demanding for democracy and rule of law to consolidate this and other gains.
and also, considering this is the money that would have been wasted on war in eritrea, i say good riddance.

Somali region,

Why you are complaining about the sharing of Ethiopian resources while you are fighting to prevent to share your resources from Sumali region with your fellow Ethiopians.

If you do not want to share yours, why are you seeking other regions resources?

somali region [Visitor],

Currently there is an asphalt road construction nearing completion between
Jijiga-Degahabur-wardere. If you truely from there you probalbly heard it one way or the other but I doubt if you are from there!

Highways are like a BLOOD VESSEL for a country in PROGRESS.
When you see these kinds of achievments in a country there is no doubt you have a progrssive government .
This government since it came to power,in every direction day in and day out have shown their didecation and honest service up to sacrificing themselves.there is no way the rest of us can pay them back for they have given us their lives.
My only wish is for them to continue to lead this country ethiopia to the next chapter.
THANK YOU WOYANES !
GOD BLESS YOU !
GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA !

Shegaw Yayew hulu yidenekal,....who cares who is behind it....yetim fechiw duketun amchiw new negeru...and to Sami1,,,it's the policy of the governing party that made such constructions possible because they gave priority for such things so have the guts to give credit where it's due....beterefe keep up the good job Ethiopia...we will make poverty history soon.

The Americans say....just build it and everything will come after....that's how America became a great nation...the key to development is good infrastructure.

160000000000kms i c

except for the exaggration

LIES
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roads to where? we know how Woyane love to exagerate anything, it was most probably 1600 Km but they added 1 extra "0".

They built 16,000 Km in one year, with 9 Bilion budget that is just 562,000 BIRR per KM? really just US$50,000 per KM. in Ethiopia?

I DONT THINK SO

LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES

But the Coffee house brigade get so excited LOL

First of all, Woyanes always exaggerate and I only believe a quarter of what they say.

Moreover, even if true, a democratically elected government that destroys ethnic monopoly by Tigreans and EFFORT will do a much better job.

Also, 6.5 million people are starving and Woyane is leasing away our land and investing this money in Tigrai and other parts of the world!

Down with Woyane rule!!

Free Birtukan Mideksa, the Lady Liberty of Ethiopia!

Hi all!
First of all, We have to thank the million's of people and governments who fork their aid money to us so that we can have this infrastructure. The billion's of dollars flew to our country should work a charm. Let us refrain from abusing the aid money and maximize the very best of it. We can not live with aid forever.
take care.

I am not sure if I am reading correctly is they saying 16,000 KM road in one year. I can see that High way in Addis but , do you know how long the distance between Addis and the north point it is less than 800 km, go from East to West it is also around 1600 km, if you measure all the roads in Ethiopia, i mean asphalted , not the cattle ways, if devleloped world can not build that in a year's time, Nazret is becoming a lying machine, go the CIA fact book , Ethiopia only has less than 7000 paved or asphalted road, and the rest around 15, 000 is rural road.

So please make sure that you check reliable sources, i am ashamed of you nazret for putting a propaganda to distract from the reality.

go the CIA fact book

[This is not nazret's news, it is from ENA.]

16 thousend km in one year
Oh my Gog where have we been for the last 3 thousand years

What Samson is not telling us is the millions if not billions of dollars syphoned by SUR/EFFORT and the Woyane killers

16,000 km is about 10,000 miles.how on earth a 9 billion birr which is less than $1 billion can rehabilitate let alone construct 16,000 km?It is a usual woyane white lie it doesn't add up

yonas solomon, the WoyAne cheerleader says:

"go ethiopia go!!!! errer belu asmaruu, eritrooo!! "

Loser, we don't have any problems to see development, if it is done in good faith and for the benefit of marginalized people, if providing equal service and employment opportunities for all ethnic groups. It never was in our nature of blood or in our nurture of learning. And that was what we were fighting for and continued to fight for, in searching true partners of the whole region of HOA, exposing different regimes of Ethiopia, including the recent mercinary one who destroys neighborhoods in ethnic cleansing doctrine and invading sovereign countries on behalf of Western pigs. Our problems comes when it is used for cheap propaganda to the Western donors and empty EthiopPianism.

Kusil yalebet wusha indelibu ayChohimina, now that you attempted to blackmail Eritreans against Ethiopian "development", unprovoked, here is what I will say:

To desensitized people who are used to pose as posterchildren, to people who see their names in headlines, to looters of Abay Tigrai who milk the poor of Ethiopians but allege that development was there to all, to those inferior complexed jealous minority looters who would like to justify their wrongdoing, to people who are preoccupied after Western media, in servicing and accomodating corrupted UN, AU, IGAD leaders and NGOs, this show off picture could mean a lot, while suffering in human made ethnic and religious conflicts, and starving to death in millions, in a human made famine: Iyareru mesaK.

For us, Eritreans, who sensed light at the end of the tunnel, road construction as infrastructure didn't start in this year's budget. It started long ago, before our independence, but more officially in Warsai-Yikealo Marshal plan, about five years ago. And here is the difference:

We don't see roads as pictures, in a final product fashion. We see or build roads as means of:
- giving equal access of education health service, production and distribution of farm products to build self reliance
- advancing the economic development in terms of tourism, mining, trade and other sectors to increase the living standard of EVERY CITIZEN, regardless of region or religion
- focusing on giving equal development opportunities in the neglected rural areas of the WHOLE ERITREA
- giving opportunity of ALL ETHNIC GROUP in building skills and know how, while reducing foreign and local corruption costs, to build our own resources nationwide for tomorrows better Eritrea

Now, tell us or prove to us how this highway, in the middle of Addis would help the famine stricken people of Ethiopia while begging donors to come and rescue the marginalized. Tell us how this road will facilitate imported goods of Ethiopia while accusing neighbors for not helping. Tell us how this road will help the 100,000 orphans and AIDS victims of Addis.

And show us who was the employment beneficiary of these projects and who were the bosses and the contractors of these projects.

By the way, it is still in our memory what WoyAne built in Mekele, empty buildings, when they learned Eritrea built an International Airport in Massawa, IN ITS OWN CAPACITY, who will shortly play an incredible role in the Free Zone of Eritrea's sea coast. What did those Abay Tigrai buildings do now? itsy bitsy spider...

Stop "ras saiTena gutena" projects that didn't address the basic and burning survival issues of marginalized people of Ethiopia.

aye "Mama EthioPia" besimish sintu tesera!

sami1 ante amedam what do you about development anyways. You have never seen before what is happening in Ethiopia right now. More power to EPRDF. Yeha

ZXAmeche,

The Banda Eritreans give thier ass to Arabs, in turn the Arabs take their money to Ethiopia to invest them. Loser.

Ethiopians do not mind to be milked by fellow Ethiopia Tigrayans than the banda Arabe servants.

Good work. I am glad to see the new bridge in Addis has been completed. I was there during the construction last summer and I am amazed how fast they finalized the project. Keep it rolling and it will help our economy to grow stronger while communities connect easily.

Somali Region (boy),

You don’t need road! Your nomad life is fine riding camels and walking through the jungles. After you settle your nomad life and start showing your Ethiopiawinet, we might then considered to include you with some of the road projects. At the time been we don’t trust you and we don’t think you deserve paved roads in the jungles. Beside, nomads don’t understand the use of roads and technologies.
Z-Mike

Though most regional administration head cities are less than 500 km away from the capital, until few years ago public transport used to take two days or more. Especially during winter traveling was a nightmare. Even those seasonal roads were not stretched to most parts of the country. Pack animals were the only option.
This deeply troubling problem seems partially resolved. It is impressive news. I am excited more than ever to go back to homeland and witness the said all season roads. It shall surely be delighting to see the transformation made to the gravel road I used to travel to Keffa; the endless plain fields I loved to pass over when I was working in Ghinner Bale; the Gohatsion-Dejen road the yester years' rugged, twisting and bloodcurdling road, the one I frequented in my teen years.
Especially the notorious Abay valley road used to be slippery and fatal. Bandits accustomed to ambush there. The public buses’ cashiers in order to cross the valley safely used to collect money from passengers and offer to eagerly waiting priests’ from churches on either ends of the Valley. The passengers' generosity/bribe believed to earn protection from celestial saints.

good development!!

however,what has been done in the south and south-east balle road?
do not forget to clean your dish after you eat>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Development in Ethiopia is not a jock, folks. It is happening. We got less procrastination now, we have less talk and more action down there. Things are vibrating positively ones more in Ethiopia.
I really do not know why some of you got stuck in this politics of hate. It is completely not Ethiopian.

Don't be surprised,its well known,since the fighting against derg regime and after they took over power in the country,always ZEROs are in favour.That is why in most of weyanes staistics report having more exaggerated zeros are considerd to be normal.Therefore, read as 160 or 1600km road constructed during the budject year.

That is great news our contry needs more roads to contact all states of ethiopa and will be fast transport and exchange each other so please continue I am very happy personaly .GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA AND THEIRE CHILDRENS

Ato Teshome wrote,

“Don’t be mislead by the showoff politics. Most rural community and economically resourceful sites in the country are still inaccessible. They are telling us the show case roads constructed by loan money. These roads are neither the result of a growing economy nor an integral part of a coordinated infrastructural development. It is simply a means of corruption. Who is benefiting by these? Of course, Weyane officials through EFFORT.”

Ato Teshome’s comment is absolutely correct. When I was in Ethiopia a few months ago I had to walk 11 hours to see “yesemaine kebro”. Yes! They constructed a lot of roads in Tigray but not in the Begemdir region.

Since the day I was born in Ethiopia, we used to do our own modern roads and bridges. But now the road is done by Chinese and loan money. What a shame for our country and Africa. But under the Adwa kemals, after thousands of years independent we are not even capable of constructing our own roads and bridges.

"Wushaw yichuh, gimelum yiguaz!"

VIVA Ethiopia!
VIVA WOYANE!

3000 አመት ኤርትራ የሚባል ነቀርሳ ነበረብን ሕግዚአብሄር ይመስገን ተላቀቅን!

Moran Ertreans, Go away as you wish
What are you doing here? colony is your factor not your narrow mind that develops the country. You pretend to be civilized and better than the rest of Africa, shame on you.
You just missed the commen Humanity, using poor vision of ER, The dream of ilussion
I wonder Why you always think you are better than others? Is that normal?
ANKORA!!!!!!ANKORA!!!!

time to move back sweet home sweet.
interesting

So 41 kms + 200 kms = 16,000 kms. Jimma road was started in 2000 and finished several years ago; but Weyane counts it every year. These guys lie and lie. The country is in absolute literary darkness the whole rainy season + all telecomcommunications with the outside world are worse than the 50s znd Weyane tells us 'Renaissance'? What liars!!!

SK
the road projects were completed this year, but most of them were commenced years ago. for xample the jima-addis road took almost five years.

Yeha aka listro boy wrote:

" You have never seen before what is happening in Ethiopia right now"

You are absently right . We never seen in any parts of the world shoe shiners & dirty beggars like your race running a country like a whore house.
You & your filthy crew have been messing Ethiopia & in general the horn of Africa for the last 18 years. You have been killing innocent Ethiopian women & Chaldean with out discrimination. For the last 18 years you & your blood sucker Tigrian thieves have been looting Ethiopian resources mercilessly.
Above all, you have been orchestrating ethnic hatred among Ethiopians who have been living in harmoney for generations BECAUSE YOU WANT TO PROLONG YOUR ILLEGAL OCCUPATION.

Watch out, there are a lot of people born to criticize. Ofcourse the hateful diaspora are exceptions, they do it based on hate.
At the end of the day it doent't matter much. Ethiopia is going forward without them.
Ethiopia is at a critical time in history. In my opinion roads are the most important for development and it is happening in Ethiopia.
The do nothing are going to tell you
our people are still starving. They are foolish. You can't eliminate poverty overnight. The mission of what is happening in Ethiopis is to eradicate poverty.
Hateful diaspora, the likes of Al-mariam join in insteag of barking.
Do something for your country.
Everything is on the open and denial
will get you anywhere.
Googbye,
Dengayras.

yeha;
you thug

Do you know how much distance 16 km means?
It means the distance between Ethiopia & Brazil!
Those Aigames are losing it!
Comeon Nazret, for how long are you going to be the garbage bin for Aigame trash?

Good job!!!Infrastructure is the key element for one country economic development,and,as the credit given to the gov't policies among constructing roads,we read a good news.keep going forward.I think the information is accurate,because I know alot roads in all over Ethiopia was built in the past 10 years.
I wish they-the goverment- could put the same effort in the political arena,and democratazion system,but,still,they are good in roads,hospitals,and education...

ZXAmce minnaw endih errir alk'. take it easy.
....
JT the roads took many years but they were all completed during the year.

Good roads have advantages and disadvantages: the good advantages are that farmers can easily transport their products to the market very effectively and easily and get a good price on their goods. The disadvantages are that the bad guys, using the good roads, can cheat the farmers by buying their products cheaply, and the countryside girls will migrate in a great number to the cities for an employment, but the only employment they may find is prostitution.

Good news. Keep it up!

The strength or the test for one nation is able to achive different kinds of construction works or engineering works, on different kind of project.

To see my country able to do this kind of extraordinary things are very impressive. I shall admire that.

All I got to say is Bertu.

God bless.

Please read between the lines way before you’re rushing to give your venomous response to the progress that has been achieved. Either the news media or the public relation director for (ERA) never mentions that the roads are fully integrated asphalts roads that covered the entire Ethiopia. If I am not mistaken this is what have been constructed in the fiscal budget year “upgrading of highways, renovation and construction of tributary roads, among others” so where is the lie? As we all know a construction of new roads may cost more than the aforementioned amount but these are not only new roads but upgrading of highways and renovations. For the past couple of years since I became a regular visitor to Nazret, whenever there is a news report regarding to any form of economic or social progress in the country I don’t know why but for some apparent reasons many of the people who visited the site are not happy with the news report. Don’t take me wrong here. I am not advising anybody to take the news report with a face value and praise the people who is behind the achievement, but what I am saying is let us be fair if fairness is the right word here.

Yeha:

Thanks to those who left home in Mengistu times, and brought money back to build and do things for thier country...

If you compare Mengistu with Meles then you are stupid. Communist countries usualy diadvantage the country and there was war all over the place with in and out!

I am not going to kiss Meles feet for robbing 94% of Ethiopian by using EFORT and other conmpanies...
Tigray people own most of the companies that make money and all high position... They think they are the only once they deserve any dignity and fainess...

Amedam Ante neh wrnchila amed eyekamk adngeh Ahun gize alefelign bleh ye mitchefrew!

And ken siyalf taleksaleh!

Aheya!

Comment from: Elsa [Visitor]
“Do you know how much distance 16 km means? It means the distance between Ethiopia & Brazil!” REALLY? ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT ELSA? I SUGGEST YOU STICK TO YOUR REAL JOB BECAUSE MATH WAS NOT ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECTS…


And yes we do know how far 16km is ELSA. It’s the distance between your wide- mouth that has been expanded by your Arab pips to your rear. Now if you really want to know the distance of 1,600km, which is what the topic states in this forum, then you would be asking a difference question. The 1,600km that was completed within 12months was not just one single road moron. It was varies roads constructed throughout the country that total the distance stated above. So, before you runner your mouth wider to insults people do your home and get your facts straight.

Beside, what do you Eritreans know about Ethiopia or our roads anyways? Stick to your Asmerina road that leads you to nowhere but hell and leave us alone. You should just focus on your strip job and keep on paying your master in Asmara your 10% deuce or else your family will be rounded up and take to the S A W A murder camp! The only thing that you are good at is splitting your legs for the fat-ass Arabs…
Z-Mike

Addis Ababa to wellega on a bus used to take two days, thanks to EPRDF now it takes only 8 hours. What do you call this ? is it not an achievement, Anyway God bless EPRDF and its leadership, the roads can be seen clearly as one drives or walks aroound in the country, we need to open our minds and appreciate ouernment, anyone who want to oppose a government can do so, but being blinded by hate and prejudice isnt acceptable at all. Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world now.
God bless Woyane/EPRDF

Z-mice Kemalam kunte lekami ante ye Adwa dog wrote without shame!

Somali Region (boy),

“You don’t need road! Your nomad life is fine riding camels and walking through the jungles. After you settle your nomad life and start showing your Ethiopiawinet, we might then considered to include you with some of the road projects. At the time been we don’t trust you and we don’t think you deserve paved roads in the jungles. Beside, nomads don’t understand the use of roads and technologies.”

Who do you think you are to insult one of the most beautiful hard working Ethiopians?

Who do you think you are? You a son of “yeaba shawel set adare lij” to insult the people whom I respect and love the most.

In the first place, who gave you a right to give or deny their birth right of being an Ethiopian citzen? You coward belse lekami dengaye ras son of a banda!!!!! I have not a right to say” show your Ehiopianwinet” Lij Shewarega, Elsa, Justice09,Observer,Free etc.all of these true Ethiopians don’t even have right to say to these beautiful Ethiopians “prove your Ethiopiawinet?

I always love the Ethiopians from Ogaden region, the Afar and Isas. I think all of us from the Imperial Ethiopian Navy used to love these true courage Ethiopians.

I remember when we used to meet them in the middle of the ocean with their tiny boats standing strait in the middle of their boat navigating without a compass. We were proud of them. Since then, because of their ingenuity I developed a special love for the people of Afar and Isas.They are “korate”!! But, it was a great mystery to us how they could navigate from Masawa or Asseb without anything to Kenya, Djibouti, Yemen, etc. We ask them if they have any problem with their engines and give them some food. They are true Ethiopians. You a Z-mice, once we recovered our country, you will end up in Sudan. Kel ras!!

i personaly have witnessed in my visits how much the rural roads have improved so i am not surpirsed. on my trip to ethiopia 10 years ago i went to different part of the country including jima, awasa, gondar, diredawa and etc and each of this trips took days and the ride was hell with cars breaking down often.on my trip this year all these roads were paved asphalt and the ride was smooth. i simply could not believe my eyes.
but its funny to see this shameless ar'terans pocking their nose and commenting on a country they havent seen since their ugly ass was told to pack and leave to the cursed land.

It is good news even though the exaggeration is longer than the road itself. I wish I knew the true length of the road constructed. Still 1600 km which may be the real length is still better than none even though it may not be as good as 16,000. Gas import goes dawn so more roads less gas means we still have to do more to use the roads if it is for cars.

Hey ZXamech are those assertions really happened in the land of the nomads where people couldn’t even remember their human nature any more or you are just fantasizing and trying to crate a vacuum here on Nazret.com so you can be justified for what you have presented as a legitimate fact about the two sides, thus, you can exercise your intellectual ability at the expense of poor Eritreans. Don’t you think it’s very irresponsible to tell a lie about your own people (Eritreans).

Dawit Mehari You want to split hairs after the news?
perhaps it is you who is not reading the press release it says 16000KM of roads were constructed then goes to add inaddition the upgrading Bla Bla Bla, but the ministry met its target
Even if they made dirt roads do you think 16000 in one year on a 9billion Birr budget is possible? Not even the chinese could pull this off so when people don't believe the hype it is for a good reason even if they count a dual lane highway4 times per KM 16000KM would still be impossible to achieve in one year
Suddenley we are lead to believe 16000 KM of new roads were built in just one year (before the elections next year) but the chinese company building the Debre Zyeit road stopped construction of the 10KM strech from Meskal Square after digging the road up because they were not paid and that was a contract worth 150million birr forjust 10 km!!!!!
So you see the figures don't add up both the KM and the Value

You should make it point to come here more often and see all the fabrications coming out from Addis ababa Billion Birr factories, Billions of $$$$ in forign investment which never see the light of day why can't the ERA list the roads it constructed last year? And how many KM will they construct this year? There are some die hard people who don't know any better and so believe everything that is fed to them but some of us want to be told the truth not 12% GDP growth when we are still finacing our budget with Aid money and any other money we get from china or Arabs
Factories closing down Farms going into liquidation mass unemployment the world over and only Ethiopia which is run by a bunch of uneducated Ex-Bush fighters is able to Buck the Global trend?
With time you will come to understand