Ethiopia: New African Union Building and Kwame Statue

Built on a 110,000 sq of land donated by Ethiopian government to the AU, the over 100 meters tall new African Union Conference Center (AUCC) financed by the Chinese government was inaugurated on Saturday January 28, 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

With a budget of $200 million dollars, around 350 Chinese and Ethiopian workers started the construction project in June 2009. The AUCC is a standard international conference center and it has 2,500 seat big conference hall, a 650 seats medium conference hall, five press conference rooms, two VIP rooms, water fountains, a garden, theatre, parking area, libraries and medical centers among many other facilities. Several African leaders and dignitaries attended the inauguration ceremony Saturday. Ethiopian Prime Minister hailed the new building as “a symbol of the rise of Africa.”

Source: spaceinternational
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