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The Wall Street Journal : Ethiopia is a failed state and soon will cease to exist

Post by Thomas H » 07 Dec 2020, 10:05

“...For the past decade Ethiopia under Meles Zenawi has boasted of one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, welcoming billions of dollars in foreign direct investment from the U.S. and China and lifting more than 20 million people out of poverty.

“... Now, under the illegal PM Abiy Ahmed a monthlong civil war, coronavirus lockdowns and historic locust infestations have left the once-golden economy stumbling, as it grapples with one of Africa’s most perilous debt loads, soaring inflation and the risk of a protracted insurgency....”







Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facing-war ... gmKXQ9qnwM