Search on for new routes to the sea: one of Ethiopia's biggest economic headaches is access to the sea for the land-locked country. Neil Ford describes the various options the country is now examining to enable it to reach the sea.

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Search on for new routes to the sea: one of Ethiopia's biggest economic headaches is access to the sea for the land-locked country. Neil Ford describes the various options the country is now examining to enable it to reach the sea.

The secession of Eritrea and subsequent border war had many negative effects on the Ethiopian economy. The loss of manpower, waste of money, devastation of human lives and diverting the government's attention from the needs of the rest of the population must rank near the top of the list.

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Yet perhaps the most lasting legacy in purely economic terms was the loss of the country's ports and the transformation of Ethiopia into a landlocked state. Not only does the lack of a port make trade with the rest of the world a far more difficult undertaking ...

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