A view of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway Photo: Courtesy of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation Editor's Note: In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the "Belt and Road ...

T he historic neighbourhood of Piassa, at the old heart of Addis Ababa, is being taken apart. Workmen are uprooting pipes, felling lampposts and chiselling at façades. One building is being ...