Ethiopia: the budding powerhouse in Africa

[mwathai]

Ethiopia was for many years known only because of its airline, the Ethiopian. But noiw the country is emerging from war and communist rule with stunning results. Apart from robust growth rates, the country is emerging as a potential powerhouse in Africa.
East Africa Economic Report: Ethiopia: The budding energy power house in Africa

 

[Koborer]

Way to go Ethiopia. Kudos.

 

[malipula]

They are not better off than any African nation.Look at their sons; there are always on the run to South Africa to fetch better living just like Tanzanians.Have you ever seen the people of Botswana on the run to South Africa for better living?

 

[Koborer]

They are not better off than any African nation.Look at their sons; there are always on the run to South Africa to fetch better living just like Tanzanians.Have you ever seen the people of Botswana on the run to South Africa for better living?

You may have a point, but there is always a starting point. Ethiopia by doing what it is doing is taking the first step in reversing what you are saying. After all a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

 

[JokaKuu]

You may have a point, but there is always a starting point. Ethiopia by doing what it is doing is taking the first step in reversing what you are saying. After all a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

..but why are they portrayed as if they have "arrived"??

..hata hapa Tz mara nyingi huwa tunasifiwa lakini maisha kwa walio wengi ni magumu kwelikweli.

 

[SHERRIF ARPAIO]

They are not better off than any African nation.Look at their sons; there are always on the run to South Africa to fetch better living just like Tanzanians.Have you ever seen the people of Botswana on the run to South Africa for better living?

The fact that you have the exodus of Ethiopians to foreign countries doesn't mean that their country is not doing well. You have millions of chinese who are currently emigrating to Canada, United States, Brazil and even Africa. Is China not doing well?

 

[Koborer]

..but why are they portrayed as if they have "arrived"??

..hata hapa Tz mara nyingi huwa tunasifiwa lakini maisha kwa walio wengi ni magumu kwelikweli.

Yes, even in TZ there are bright and dark sides too. This is also true for every country including the much prosperous South Africa.

 

[JokaKuu]

The fact that you have the exodus of Ethiopians to foreign countries doesn't mean that their country is not doing well. You have millions of chinese who are currently emigrating to Canada, United States, Brazil and even Africa. Is China not doing well?

..tatizo ni kwamba hizo habari zinaandikwa as if the majority of the wananchi are doing well. while the truth is, it is the elite and the multinational corporations that are thriving.

..kuna mataifa ambayo ni tajiri, "doing well", lakini wananchi wake wanapigika kimaisha and there is a lot of injustice.

 

[Geza Ulole]

[h=1]As Kenya believes its own hype, the world looks away[/h]


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US President Barack Obama (L) dances to music alongside Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete upon arrival on Air Force One at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar Es Salaam, on July 1, 2013. Tanzania and the United States have cordial relations. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB
[h=3]In Summary[/h]

• Ethiopia is no longer in civil war and is quickly becoming a better investment opportunity for manufacturers.
• Tanzania is the new gateway to the DRC and is receiving mammoth investment from both China and America
• The more we push, the more it appears that our principal interest is to continue with our renowned practice of perpetuating impunity.
• In Africa, China and Russia are spoilt for even better choices. They will only go so far to help us out.

By PAUL MWANGI
More by this AuthorEver since the post-election violence of 2007/2008, the word impunity has been used both nationally and internationally in describing what is wrong with Kenya.

In what is popularly known as the Waki Report, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the violence stated:

“Our view is that the lackadaisical manner in which the government dealt with the Akiwumi report only goes to illustrate that the state was not particularly interested in resolving once and for all the issue of ethnic violence.”

In the report he tabled before the United Nations General Assembly in May 2009, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions decried impunity in Kenya and observed that nothing had been done regarding the ethnic violence of 1992, 1997, and 2007.

He recommended that the International Criminal Court should take up Kenya’s case noting that “without the special mechanism recommended by the Waki Commission, there is little prospect of accountability”.

This is the background against which Kenya is conducting its diplomatic initiative to have the cases at the ICC terminated.

The significance of this international reputation was clear when Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed was being interviewed a few weeks back by Zeinab Badawi of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the programme, HARDtalk.

The interviewer accused Kenya of trying to use the African Union as a Trojan horse to pursue its international diplomatic initiative to have the three cases dropped. She said though AU’s complaint was that the court was targeting Africans, the request for dropping cases only concerned Kenyans and not other Africans before the ICC.

The issue about the interviewer was not whether one agreed with her but that she was a reflection of how the world out there thinks of us. The international community is beginning to view us as a spoilt child who expects rules to be broken to accommodate its desires.

The reality is that gone are the days when we were the “island of peace” in an unpredictable and violent part of the world. Over time, the world around us has changed, but we are yet to wake up and smell the coffee.

Ethiopia is no longer in civil war and is quickly becoming a better investment opportunity for manufacturers both due to the low price of its electricity and the size of its population, about 90 million people. It is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.

Tanzania is no longer socialist and is now the darling of America. Apart from its own vast mineral, oil and gas deposits, Tanzania is the new gateway to the DRC and is receiving mammoth investment from both China and America.

China is building what is being called a “mega port” for Tanzania at Bagamoyo, which is more than 30 times the size of Mombasa, as part of a $10 billion investment package for Tanzania. When completed, it is bound to take away all central Africa business from Mombasa port, which will be left to serve only Kenya and Uganda.

READ: US President Barack Obama arrives in Tanzania

READ: China, Tanzania sign partnership deal

To underpin the importance of Tanzania to China, the Chinese President Xi Jinping travelled to Tanzania in March this year to personally deliver the deal.

President Obama has recently visited the country and launched the “Power Africa” project, a $ 7 billion project to produce 10,000 MW of electricity to sub-Saharan Africa.

Kenya was not part of the deal.

In the meantime, our signature project, Lapsset, to connect Lamu to South Sudan is failing to attract investors and, in fact, a new deal is being negotiated by South Sudan and its northern neighbours to take the project upwards connecting the South Sudan to the Red Sea. The new deal is said to be better for South Sudan and there is a real danger that Lapsset may never see the light of day.

Sudan is itself fighting to convince the southern nation that it should continue exporting its crude through the pipeline to Port Sudan.

In the meantime, we are proceeding on the basis that the world cannot do without us. We even have the effrontery to demand that the whole world ignore the international law, yet the more we push, the more it appears that our principal interest is to continue with our renowned practice of perpetuating impunity.

Let us stop comparing ourselves with other countries. The painful truth is that Kenya is not Syria. In the Middle East, Syria is the only foothold for China and Russia. The rest of the countries are either fundamentalist or pro-Western. In Africa, China and Russia are spoilt for even better choices.

They will only go so far to help us out.

Mr Mwangi is a Nairobi-based lawyer. (muragemwangi@yahoo.com)
As Kenya believes its own hype, the world looks away - Opinion - nation.co.ke

 

[Crocodiletooth]

it so heartfully,mwangi describes so clearly tanzania goes slowly keenly wisely just like his chinese brother at the 70, I am still keep hope no longer tanzania ktk kipindi kisicho kirefu yaweza kuwa ya 5 ktk chumi bora africa,endapo miradi tajwa itatekelezwa kifasaha

 

[Geza Ulole]

it so heartfully,mwangi describes so clearly tanzania goes slowly keenly wisely just like his chinese brother at the 70, I am still keep hope no longer tanzania ktk kipindi kisicho kirefu yaweza kuwa ya 5 ktk chumi bora africa,endapo miradi tajwa itatekelezwa kifasaha

ana ugonjwa wa upofu unaoambatana na ukabila unaomfanya kuona kila kitu kiko sawa katika kuiunga mkono serikali ya Mkikuyu mwenzie

 

[ITEGAMATWI]

Hata nikiangalia Rank ya Ethiopia kwa nchi zenye uchumi mzuri Africa huwa naiona pia, lakini mpaka sasa sijapata jibu la kwanini wananchi wa nchi hiyo wanakimbia nchi yao kwa kasi ya kutisha kiasi cha kufia kwenye fuso huko dodoma. Inamaana uchumi wa nchi unafaidisha wachache au nini hasa tatizo?

 

[Geza Ulole]

Hata nikiangalia Rank ya Ethiopia kwa nchi zenye uchumi mzuri Africa huwa naiona pia, lakini mpaka sasa sijapata jibu la kwanini wananchi wa nchi hiyo wanakimbia nchi yao kwa kasi ya kutisha kiasi cha kufia kwenye fuso huko dodoma. Inamaana uchumi wa nchi unafaidisha wachache au nini hasa tatizo?

ukweli ni kwamba uchumi wa Ethiopia bado upo kwenye agrarian state na bado serikali haijaruhusu watu binafsi kuwekeza kwa hiyo hauwezi ku-support idadi yao karibu 92 milioni! WB na IMF inakisia uchumi kutokuwa tena kama hawataruhusu sekta binafsi na uwekezaji kutoka nje kuingia Ethiopia maana serikali ishafika kikomo katika kuendesha uchumi wake!

 

[mwathai]

They are not better off than any African nation.Look at their sons; there are always on the run to South Africa to fetch better living just like Tanzanians.Have you ever seen the people of Botswana on the run to South Africa for better living?

Kwa wale wanaoropoka maneno bila ya kufikiria, na wale walio na tatizo kuelewa kiingereza, ripoti haikusema kwamba ethiopia imesha kuwa kiongozi barani Africa. Ripoti inasema hivi: Ethiopia ina rasilmali nyingi hasa za kuzalisha umeme (MW63,000) kiasi kwamba wakisha zizalisha zote ita weza kuziuzia nchi kadhaa za kiafrika umeme ikiwemo Tanzania

 

[mwathai]

Hata nikiangalia Rank ya Ethiopia kwa nchi zenye uchumi mzuri Africa huwa naiona pia, lakini mpaka sasa sijapata jibu la kwanini wananchi wa nchi hiyo wanakimbia nchi yao kwa kasi ya kutisha kiasi cha kufia kwenye fuso huko dodoma. Inamaana uchumi wa nchi unafaidisha wachache au nini hasa tatizo?

Jibu hili swali nami nitakujibu. Uchumi wa Tanzania Umekua kwa kasi Kushinda Uchumi wa Kenya. Kwanini basi Uchumi wa Kenya ni mara mbili kwa ukubwa Kushinda Uchumi wa Tanzania?

 

[jMali]

Hiyo misifa tu kama ya Rwanda! wanajifanya wana maendeleo huku wananchi wanageuka wahamiaji haramu.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Jibu hili swali nami nitakujibu. Uchumi wa Tanzania Umekua kwa kasi Kushinda Uchumi wa Kenya. Kwanini basi Uchumi wa Kenya ni mara mbili kwa ukubwa Kushinda Uchumi wa Tanzania?

Uchumi wa Kenya si mara mbili ya wa Tanzania! pls stop distortion otherwise i will ask moderators to act on u as JF forum rules are concerned

Kenya's GDP $37.34 billion (2012)

Tanzania's GDP $ 28.25 billion (2012)

$ 28.25 billion*2= $ 56.50 billion

56.50 billion-$37.34 billion= $ 19.16 billion short of ur fantasies and at Kenya economy that struggles to grow at 4% u can tell ur knuckled head where will Kenya be when compared with Tanzania's economy that grows 7%> constantly in next 5 years

 

[ITEGAMATWI]

Jibu hili swali nami nitakujibu. Uchumi wa Tanzania Umekua kwa kasi Kushinda Uchumi wa Kenya. Kwanini basi Uchumi wa Kenya ni mara mbili kwa ukubwa Kushinda Uchumi wa Tanzania?

Sina jibu mkuu wangu hebu nifumbue macho na mimi! Ni kwanini ipo hivyo?

 

[mwathai]

Sina jibu mkuu wangu hebu nifumbue macho na mimi! Ni kwanini ipo hivyo?

Ni Hivi: Kwa Muda Mrefu Uchumi wa Ethiopia ulidimizwa na vitu and msuko ya kisiasa. Baada ya hali kutulia, uchumi ulianza Kukua kwa kadiri. Lakini ulivyozidi kukua bila misukosuko, kasi ya ukuaji iliongezeka na kuwa kati ya mataifa ya kiafrika yanayokua kwa kasi mno. Lakini kwa sababu hali ilikuwa ni duni, ukuaji huo hauja kidhi mahitaji ya kila mwananchi. Ndiyo maana wanachi wa Ethioipa wanaishsi katika hali duni. Ukweli ni kwamba uchumi huo ukizidi kukua kwa kasi ya sasa, katika miaka kumi Ijayo hali wa wa Ethiopia itakuwa tofauti kabisa na sasa. Labda tutakuwa sisi ndio tu nenda Ethiopia kutafuta ajira. Natumai nimekujibu sawa.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Kwa wale wanaoropoka maneno bila ya kufikiria, na wale walio na tatizo kuelewa kiingereza, ripoti haikusema kwamba ethiopia imesha kuwa kiongozi barani Africa. Ripoti inasema hivi: Ethiopia ina rasilmali nyingi hasa za kuzalisha umeme (MW63,000) kiasi kwamba wakisha zizalisha zote ita weza kuziuzia nchi kadhaa za kiafrika umeme ikiwemo Tanzania

Wewe inaonekana umeathirika na ukoloni mamboleo unaokufanya uwe na fikra duni.