Liberty

VOLA: Ethiopia, a Classic Case of Growth without Development – Alex Njeru Ndungu

 

Of all contemporary statecraft in the world today, one state continues to defy all logic and conventional wisdom.  Ethiopia the 85 million people horn of Africa behemoth of a state continues to baffle all that care to throw more than a superficial glance at its modern day realities.  Ethiopia is surprisingly one of the most insular states in the world today. 

East Africa: How Could a Lasting Peace Between Ethiopia and Eritrea Be Achieved?

It has been over a decade since talks regarding the demarcation of Eritrea-Ethiopia border stalled, and relations between the two long-standing nemeses deteriorated into an effective cold war.

Africa: Mrs Thatcher and the Continent

Mrs Thatcher played a pivotal role in the ending of Apartheid in spite of herself. She once declared the African National Congress to be a "typical terrorist organisation... Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land".

Why Eritrea Is Not the North Korea of Africa, and What We Should Be Noticing Instead

Eritrea is with some frequency referred to as "The North Korea of Africa". However, this analogy is not helpful for understanding Eritrea.

Foreign Aid: A noble act of non-creative destruction

 

Foreign aid seems noble, but there are distinct fallacies and unplanned destructive effects from that proposal.

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