re: The amount of development Africa experienced in the last 50 years is astounding

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Thanks I fixed it. Ethiopia is spiraling except for that 1 city

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The June 1 election reveals a country of two halves.

On one side is the booming capital, Addis Ababa, which projects a social media-friendly narrative of progress, marked by new high-rises, expanded roads, city lighting and parks, alongside economic reforms, including the launch of a new national stock market.

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However, outside the capital’s borders, this urban gloss disappears.

Regions like Tigray, Amhara, and Oromia remain ravaged by active warfare, massacres, and mass displacement. Observers link these conflicts to Abiy’s push away from Ethiopia’s longstanding system of ethnic federalism, which had allowed diverse regional states to draft their own laws and maintain local armies.

For nearly three decades, the country was governed by the EPRDF, a coalition of four powerful, ethnically-based parties representing the dominant regions: Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, and the Southern Nations.

Abiy was initially brought to power by this coalition to calm tensions that forced his predecessor Desalegn to step down.

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