https://qz.com/1334958/how-abiy-ahmed-transformed-ethiopia-in-100-days/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo


The changes are nothing short of seismic, proof that nothing remains the same forever.
In just over 100 days, Ethiopia’s new prime minister Abiy Ahmed has taken radical steps aimed at dismantling the country’s troubled past and paving the way for a new future. After years of protests, state killings, ethnic violence, internet shutdowns, and emergency rules, the Horn of Africa nation has made an astonishing and promising turnaround for the better.

Abiy Ahmed, the newly elected chair of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is sworn in as the country's Prime Minister, Monday, April 2, 2018. Ethiopia's legislature has elected young and outspoken Abiy Amhed as prime minister, amid hopes that he will be able to quell sustained anti-government protests in Africa's second most populous nation.


Abiy, Africa’s youngest leader at 41, has overseen all this, taking a sledgehammer’s approach in order to establish quick and lasting change on both the local and foreign levels. Domestically, Abiy’s administration announced it would loosen its monopoly on several key economic sectors, including aviation and telecoms. This has reportedly prompted Kenya’s Safaricom to negotiate the entry of its dominant mobile money service M-Pesa in the country. Politically, in a nation where all parliament seats are held by the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, Abiy has urged the nation to pursue multiparty democracy.

Abiy’s administration also freed prominent opposition leaders and journalists, including Andargachew Tsege, a British citizen who was seized during a stopover in Yemen in 2014.

But it’s Abiy’s work across the east and Horn of Africa region that have brought a sharp focus to his reformist politics. In June, Abiy went to Egypt to assure president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi—in Arabic nonetheless—that Egypt won’t cut its share of the Nile waters. The hugs and smiles that followed the meeting showcased a significant step to breaking the deadlock over who controls the world’s longest river. On his flight home, Abiy brought with him 32 Ethiopian inmates freed from Egyptian prisons.

After decades of political and military impasse, Abiy also announced Ethiopia would accept a 2000 peace deal with Eritrea. That announcement cascaded in a series of events that ended the hostility between the two nations and captured the world and storytellers’ attention. These include the reopening of embassies, the resumption of trade, and the reunification of friends and family after the first commercial flight from Ethiopia crossed into Eritrean airspace this century last week.

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) and Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki (R) attend the re-opening of the Eritrean embassy in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a brief ceremony 16 July 2018. The leaders declared their 'state of war' over one week ago and Isaias spent the weekend in Ethiopia. Eritrea reopened its embassy in Ethiopia 16 July in further evidence of a rapid thaw between two countries that a week ago ended two decades of military stalemate over a border war in which tens of thousands died.

Abiy also presided over the first meeting in two years between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his bitter rival, Riek Machar, in an effort to end the five-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.

With his youthful popularity, Abiy has also become a sort of consigliere of cool, appearing at a concert with Eritrean strongman Isaias Afwerki, and scheduling a dinner date with the famous humanoid robot, Sophia, some of whose software was developed in Ethiopia. He has also appeared at rallies wearing a t-shirt with a Nelson Mandela fist-clinched photo above a slogan that read, “No one is free until the last one is free.”

While many challenges await Abiy after this honeymoon period is over, the reformist politician is proving to be the bearer of good news for now, not only Ethiopia but the region and Africa at large. This week, he will take this message of hope and unity to the diaspora in the United States, where many, including marathoner Feyisa Lilesa, remain hopeful about the change of guard in their home nation.

If God loves Nigeria, and wants us to survive as nation, here's the formula!

We need Donald Duke to actualize this....

yanabasee:
We need Donald Duke to actualize this....

That betrayer

Odingo1:
That betrayer

He's a politician....Go to Cross River and see for yourself!!

dis is wat yhu get wen yhu elect able and capable young men into power and not all dis old gabbage...buh can dis work in Nigeria with wat ayaf seen so far among d youths of Nigeria....we can neva move 4ward bcuz d youths of dis nation are also threading d part dis old rogues laid...case studies is d SUG elections held all over Nigeria institutions...yhu can see same desperation dat exist in d old polithiefians in d aspirants...ma skool as a case studies...d election is fast approaching nau we're seeing aspirants wooing students with free 350mb data all network....developing series of applications all in d name of popularity...and calculating 4rm wat dis guys has spent xo far...it will b around hundreds of thousand...xo temme wen he comes in2 power hw will he work wen he will b busy tinking on hw to get his money back...dis same mentality is wat day're going to take along with dem as day grow in the game of politics...i grieve most tyms wen i look back dat dis are d ppu day refer to as d leaders of tomorrow....

Who will rescue us!

Africa's youngest...hmmmm! How that "stubborn thing" in North Korea and Macron be looking at Africans

"For their mind 41yrs young, anyway they practice ancestral politics"

Youthful vigor at work. If Bubu even lifts up his hand for five seconds, he's going to spend the next 2 weeks in hospital.

Let's not forget the anatomical and physiological differences between a 41 year old ruler and say a 71 year old ruler.
At 41, the ruler is likely at his peak in terms of energy, short term memory/thinking fast, stamina, vision, and perception.
These functions are greatly impaired in most 71 year olds, unfortunately, in Africa we tolerate them, because we worship personalities, and cult figures, not concepts or ideas.

Sowore! Sowore! Sowore!

Only the ancestor can transform Nigeria according to Buhari's fans

GOD save Nigeria

yanabasee:


He's a politician....Go to Cross River and see for yourself!!

What would we find when we get there? Are you suggesting that the man should be judged based on the performance of the present governor of the state.

But in nigeria one old cargo dat has not done anytin tangible in 4yrs is looking for 2nd term.........mtcheeww

bmasz:


What would we find when we get there? Are you suggesting that the man should be judged based on the performance of the present governor of the state.

The two last governors that succeeded him has done vividly nothing at all....

You will only see his legacy footprints everywhere in that state....


You will see a city built to almost perfection!!

Yes, God save us!

yanabasee:


He's a politician....Go to Cross River and see for yourself!!

Can you tell us wetin dey cross river?

wiseone28:
Can you tell us wetin dey cross river?

Lol, that's the question of an uninformed man

Obinnau:
Lol, that's the question of an uninformed man

You talked what you don't know