🌍 Dive into Agenda 2063's FTYIP (2014-2023) at our webinar, on 1 March at 15:00 EAT. Explore progress, data gaps, & AU Summit takeaways. Register: mif.live/webinars/ftyip…

This is a truly incredible speech by the great Tony Benn that I’d recommend everyone watch. 👇

The UK has removed all import tariffs on cut flowers from Ethiopia and other East African countries starting in 2024, aiming to boost a sector already worth £12M+ to Britain in 2023 alone. Read More: birrmetrics.com/uk-removes-tar…

The Global South now repays more in debt than it gets in grants & loans. This is beyond all reason. devex.com/news/global-so…

What a fantastic year it’s been! I want to once again thank the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the International Trade Centre (ITC) for this incredible experience. Working with the Office of the Executive Director along side the brillant cabinet and colleagues across the house was beyond rewarding!

“I don't know whether to scream or to cry.” Earlier this week, our spokesperson, @‌1james_elder, met two-year-old Ali in Beirut, Lebanon. Ali was buried under rubble for 14 hours after his home collapsed in an airstrike. His entire family was killed in the war. Ceasefire now.

Finally, the Ethiopian Government, led by its Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration, is holding a workshop to validate and launch its AfCFTA implementation strategy, which was developed with the support of ⁦ECA⁩ ⁦ECA | African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC)⁩ & the Policy Studies Institute.

Congratulations to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on Gazetting Its AfCFTA Provisional Schedule of Tariff Concessions (PSTCs)! What does it mean to gazette or domesticate a trade commitment? It is an official announcement that enhances transparency, ensuring that

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Ethiopia is gearing up to dispatch its first-ever shipment under the AfCFTA — marking yet another exciting milestone in our journey toward continental integration! 🇪🇹🌍 #AfCFTA #Ethiopia #TradeIntegration #ContinentalTrade Ministry of Church of trade and regional integration

It’s been over two years since the war broke out in Sudan and created one of the worst humanitarian and displacement crises in the world. The needs are as urgent today as ever. The world must #KeepEyesOnSudan.

Video evidence of mass atrocities in el-Fasher has quickly emerged after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the key Sudanese city.

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The humanitarian situation in Al Fasher and other parts of Sudan is nothing less than catastrophic. World leaders must act to end the indiscriminate killing. Statement attributable to Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6015tEZvL

'Sudan’s war is described as forgotten, but in reality it is tolerated and relegated. Because to reckon with the horror in Sudan is to look into the abyss of regional and global politics.' This week's column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#Sudan remains the world’s largest food crisis, with famine confirmed in El Fasher and Kadugli towns, additional 20 areas across Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan are at risk of famine, and over 21 million people across the country are hungry. An immediate ceasefire and

✨Meet Luladay Berhanu Mengistie, our 2025 Emerging Leader from Ethiopia. She is an embedded Trade Advisor with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration. Discover her biography here: policycenter.ma/adelcommunity/… . #ADEL2025 #AD2025 Luladay Berhanu Mengistie Policy Center for the New South

Africa has a lower debt default rate than any other emerging market. But, according to a Bloomberg report, Africa pays $75 billion more per year in “prejudice premium” borrowing costs compared to others. This has to change. I spoke about this at the AIM summit in Dubai (video).

It took fourteen years to build the Grand Ethiopian Rennaisance Dam (GERD). It was not a secret. It is the largest dam on the continent of Africa and it is funded by The Ethiopian Government and The Ethiopian people. Who would deny Ethiopia its own water and power from the Blue