The Ethiopian Roads Authority announced that it has completed the  76km Maytsemri-Dima asphalt concrete road in Tigray State. The  road is part of the Maytsemri-Dima-FiyelWuha-Abadi-Hawzen-Firewoyni road project. The construction took more than 534.4 million Ethiopian Birr, according to communication directorate of the Authority.

The Ethiopian government covered the full cost for construction of the road. A local contractor was awarded the project and the construction of the road is completed two months ahead of its original schedule, the directorate told Ethiopian News Agency on Saturday.

Similarly, construction of the 87km Dima-FiyelWuha road, which is part of the project is being constructed at a cost of over 777 million Birr. Meanwhile, designing of the 93km FiyelWuha-Abadi road is finalized while the 101km Abadi-Hawzen-Firewoyni asphalt road is being constructed by a Chinese company at a cost of 874 million Birr.

Source: ENA