The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway (AADR) has been in operation since 2018 – the year when we began our research project about Chinese-built railway infrastructure development in Ethiopia and across East Africa, and started to publish our findings also in The Diplomat. (See: China and Ethiopia, Part 1: The Light Railway System; China and Ethiopia, Part 2: The Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway; Source link