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The long (and exhausting) road to peace in Africa
Amidst recent security setbacks in the continent of Africa, one forum attempts to find homemade solutions Selahadin Eshetu In connection with the celebration of the first anniversary of the building of the Grand Millennium Dam over the Blue Nile, Ethiopians were given a rare opportunity to phone in and ask …
World Economic Forum comes to the World’s third fastest economy’
Can the host sustain it’s rank? With a population estimated at 85 million Ethiopia is the second most populous in the continent next to Nigeria, and a recent forecast by the Economist Intelligence Unit declared its economy is the third fastest growing next only to that of India and China. …
WEF on accelerating infrastructure investment
The ongoing World Economic Forum today debated on how best to maximize social and economic returns, increasing private sector investment and reaping benefits from leapfrogging within the continent. According to WEF in the past years transportation, energy and communication investments contributed substantially more to per capita growth in Africa than …