Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsEthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed‘s palace building vanity project is raising eyebrows in a country where the economy is in free fall–and still facing crises relating to the war in Tigray. An obscure young soldier in the Ethiopian National Defense Force named Abiy Ahmed must have been taking heed at the time. Rumors have been circulating over the past 2 years that Abiy Ahmed, now Prime Minister of Ethiopia was planning to build a palace for himself. The PM is proud of his ‘national’ project which according to him, will be bigger and more consequential than the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The Forest project is a case of Abiy Ahmed’s 21st Century version of “Let them eat cakes”.

Source: Ethiopian News July 06, 2023 20:56 UTC