Ethiopia ‘s Poverty could even worsen further by 2030
Borkena
Toronto – A study the World Bank Group released this week indicates that Ethiopia is one of the 39 countries where extreme poverty is worsening.
The extreme poverty rate in these countries is indicated to be 40 percent.
The study, which focused on the years after 2020, linked the worsening poverty situation, including “intensifying extreme hunger”, to conflict and instability. According to the study, currently 421 million people in these countries are struggling on less than $3 a day and the number could increase to 435 million in five years from now.
The World Bank report quoted Indermit Gill, one of its chief economists, as saying ““For the last three years, the world’s attention has been on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, and this focus has now intensified.”
Ethiopia has been impacted by devastating conflict since a few years after Abiy Ahmed took power as Prime Minister.
In November 2020, a conflict between his government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) . which lasted for two years, is believed to have claimed as many as 1 million lives mainly from three regional states of the country : Afar, Amhara and Tigray.
The economic toll of the war is not less devastating to the country. Millions have been displaced, many of them still in the IDPs camps, and reduced to absolute poverty. The economic damage caused to the country is reported to be in the neighborhood of trillion birr.
Currently another active conflict has been underway in the Amhara region of Ethiopia for two years now. It started in August 2023 when Abiy Ahmed’s administration ordered a military operation in the region against the Fano force with a stated objective of “disarming Fano within two weeks.” The Ministry of Government Communication Services released a statement on Sunday in which it admitted that the Amhara region is ravaged by ongoing conflict but it shifted the blame to the armed groups in the region who justify their militant activity with “reversing existential threat to Amhara.”
Another active conflict has been underway in the Oromia region of Ethiopia for about six years now. Armed groups operating in this region aim for the establishment of a new ethnic Oromo republic.
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Would somebody please post the link for the report where the countries cited are listed? I tried to Google for it but ended up going round in circles.
Don’t bother. I have located the full report. Eritrea, Ethiopia Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan from The Horn of Africa and nearby are all in there. I was gobsmacked when I saw Eritrea was included in the citation because every citizen there is reported to be well above the poverty line. We are being told that Eritrea has the highest GDP both Nominal and PPP in the entire eastern half of Africa. That is why it does not have internal conflict because everyone is equal. How come Al-Toweel Isu has not been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics? Them slackers in Oslo!!!!