PM Abiy Ahmed met with Jack Ma, Chair of the Alibaba Group @AlibabaGroup. They discussed the future of disruptive technologies on mkts & society. Jack Ma agreed to consider potential investment in a tech city in Ethiopia that will impact daily lives of the people in the region.
Less than two months and counting till the world gets to see the first 787 #Dreamliner ever built in her brand new home. @flightofdreams_ opens at @Centrairairport in Nagoya #Japan on October 12th! @BoeingJapan
Sometimes I still can't get over the fact that one of our greatest Americans - a black man from humble origins who put himself through Harvard, won the Presidency and guided the country out of an awful recession - was replaced by a mediocre, racist white man who can barely spell.
Of todayβs decisions by EPRDF, the only one that I am skeptical of is the liberalisation of state-owned enterprises. I hope we wonβt make the stupid mistakes some countries made during the go-go 1990s.
Privatising key state-owned enterprises without first building strong rule of law, effective institutions of accountability & transparency including vibrant free media, robust regulatory framework etc opens the door for reproduction & entrenchment of existing power relations.