SA can learn from Ethiopia's Abiy AhmedEthiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a joint media conference with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa after their talks at the Union Building in Pretoria. South Africa is stuck in no-man’s land on almost every front while Ethiopia powers ahead against worse odds than ours. Second, he has not been shy to act, apart from battling divisions within the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front. In a country torn by ethnic tension, Ahmed balanced the divergent interests of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, Amhara Democratic Party, Oromo Democratic Party and the Southern Ethiopian People’s Democratic Movement. In South Africa, we have witnessed the inability of coalitions to rule a metro, let alone a country.

Source: Ethiopian News January 19, 2020 06:56 UTC