{"id":65843,"date":"2017-10-27T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=65843"},"modified":"2018-04-03T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T11:20:50","slug":"ethiopia-power-horn-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/ethiopia-power-horn-africa","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: a new economic power in the Horn of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The slogans are regularly heard along the expressways of Addis Ababa, the sprawling capital of four million inhabitants. \"We are vigorously pursuing our global and regional role in achieving our sustainable development objectives<\/em>\"says one sign. \"We are entering a new era of global partnerships<\/em>\"says another. The deeper meaning of these messages is open to question. But they do prove one thing: the Ethiopia of 2017 shows its ambitions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A demographic giant with almost 100 million inhabitants, the second most populous country in Africa behind Nigeria, a political and diplomatic heavyweight with the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia also dreams of becoming an economic giant.<\/p>\n

Its strengths are real. With GDP rising steadily at 9 % a year for the past decade, experts are now talking of the \"Ethiopian economic miracle\", or even, by analogy with emerging Asian economies, the \"Tiger of Africa\"! Even if, of course, the country's symbol is the famous Abyssinian lion...<\/p>\n