Photo: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Light rail car pictured during official pre-revenue testing in Addis Ababa.
Addis Ababa — Habiba Awol, 24, is excited ahead of her first train ride.
Standing behind me in the ticket queue at the Menelik II Square station in the heart of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, she turns to her friend and says with a giggle: "Kedir told me that I will reach Kaliti in 10 minutes."
"Well, we shall see that," the friend, a young man in his mid-20s replies, trying to mask his own enthusiasm about a journey that normally takes about half an hour by minibus taxi.
After buying a one-way ticket for six birr (about $0.25) and undergoing a body and bag search by police, we make our way down a tunnel into the subway.
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