Democratization in Ethiopia – will they make it? – A seminar at the Swedish Development Forum (FUF) in Stockholm, Sweden.
STOCKHOLM (FUF) – After years of authoritarian rule and oppression, Ethiopia has reached a turning point after the appointment of its new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 2nd April 2018. Political prisoners have been released, a new rhetoric introduced, and a number of reforms put forward – including the preparation for new elections in 2020.
Many new challenges have occurred, however, and the process is slow and unsteady. Professor Fantu Cheru guides us in understanding what is happening at present, pointing at prospects and challenges that he sees coming out of the situation.
Fantu Cheru, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of African and Development Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for African Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. His most recent publications include “The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy” (co-edited with Christopher Cramer and Arkebe Oqubay), which examines the economic policies of structural transformation through an extensive review of literature on the Ethiopian economy.
The seminar, which was held on 29 November 2019, was moderated by Lennart Wohlgemuth, FUF Board Member.
About FUF
The Swedish Development Forum (FUF) is a non-partisan and religiously independent non-profit organization based in Stockholm. FUF’s purpose is to inform, raise awareness and generate debate about global development issues and Sweden’s role in the world.
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See also:
- EVENT ― Ethiopia 2050: Grand Challenges and Opportunities
- Where Ethiopia stands on HDI 2019: Human Development Report 2019
- What the recent IMF-support fund means to Ethiopia’s Homegrown Economic Reform Plan, in summary
- European Commission President announces a significant boost to the European Union’s cooperation with Ethiopia
- Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn becomes International Crisis Group’s board of trustees member
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