Next Africa: Ethiopia’s Fall From Africa’s Darling to Pariah
Posted: 28 May 2021, 13:25
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newslett ... -to-pariahIt wasn’t long ago that Ethiopia was being hailed as an African economic miracle. That’s rapidly unraveling.
What happened?
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s decision to retaliate against political opponents in the northern Tigray region in November has locked him into an intractable civil war, Eritrean forces have been reluctant to leave Ethiopian territory and U.S. sanctions threaten to complicate a plan to roll out modern mobile telecommunication services across Africa’s second-most populous nation...