NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA WEEKLY EDITORIAL

Since the dawn of civilization and up to the late 1960s, Ethiopia has played prominent even leading roles in the world history and loomed even larger on the African stage. Contemporary African history attests to the numerous and often pivotal actions by the then Empire of Ethiopia. Personified by the late Emperior Haile Sellasse, Ethiopia spearheaded a multi-pronged foreign policy the centerpiece of which was the total decolonization of Africa, an eventual African unity and greater African participation and voice in the world affairs.

NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA WEEKLY EDITORIAL

It is an undeniable fact that over the last decade the Ethiopian economy has been expanding – some would even add “briskly so”. This welcome growth curve is mainly fueled by infrastructure development conducted by the state and includes building an ambitious road network, the erection of several large scale energy projects as well as thousands of condominium blocks.

NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA WEEKLY EDITORIAL

Trade is the cornerstone of all civilization. The most direct and therefore, the most effective sort of trade is that which is done between and among immediate neighbors each of whom has certain goods the other(s) require(s). In this respect, how far the nations of Africa and more pertinently, and the countries of east Africa have gone?