Ethiopia is exposed

[Idilinaa]

What you mean they cook their books? Like eating them

It's a figure of expression, it's means they use accounting tricks to make it look more profitable.

Cook the books is a slang term for using accounting tricks to make a company's financial results look better than they really are. Typically, cooking the books involves manipulating financial data to inflate a company's revenue, deflate expenses, and pump up profit.

I think Kenya's GDP numbers and agricultural output are more accurate.

@Rayaale i don't think they cook their books to the same level as Ethiopia and it has other productive sectors that bring in revenue so they don't have to rely on inflating agricultural production numbers.

But there was a massive scandal around fake fertilizers and seeds.

 

[Rayaale]

What you mean they cook their books? Like eating them

They overinflate their gdp, the average Kenyan is much poorer than a Somali

 

[novanova]

Ethiopia never modernized socially or politically, its ruling elite continues to act like medieval lords, while the people remain in poverty

Even today, Ethiopia's rural areas function like feudal villages, with landless peasants controlled by government-backed elites.

 

[Aurelian]

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Yikes! This is not even the average teaching job as a lecturer, but the 2nd highest teaching profession. Professorship which should actually come with a much higher wage.

The average professor/lecturer salary in Somalia is like $76 500 a year which is $6,250 monthly. Teachers job seems to between 1k-3000 monthly based on the aggregated job listings put out by the various universities and highschools.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/somalia-teacher-salary-SRCH_IL.0,7_IN218_KO8,15.htm

Its even worse when you think about the rising inflation numbers in Ethiopia that make every thing more expensive from housing, rent and food prices. Fried economy, low wages and high prices.

Price instability rocks Ethiopia as it reels from foreign exchange rate reforms

The prices on the menu have been erased at a small hotel in a suburb of Ethiopia’s capital. That was no mistake, the waiters said, as businesses in Addis Ababa struggle to keep up with spiraling inflation since the government implemented a flexible exchange rate policy late last month.

apnews.com

Ethiopia's inflation squeezes family budgets as food prices rise | Context

The rising cost of household staples from teff flour to baby formula is forcing Ethiopian families to cut back on extras

www.context.news

Rising costs push a blind couple out of Ethiopia’s middle class

How a visually impaired social worker in Addis Ababa manages the rising cost of living for his household of five.

www.aljazeera.com

Salaries of assistance that high in Africa? In Finland it could around 2000-3000€.

 

[Burqad]

What you mean they cook their books? Like eating them

[ cook the books ] always refers to some kind of false accounting - keeping records that are not true, e.g. company accounts, expenses claimed, hours worked, distances traveled, etc.

If someone has [ cooked the books ] they have NOT simply told lies; they have produced false records of something, usually financial but not always.

 

[Idilinaa]

Salaries of assistance that high in Africa? In Finland it could around 2000-3000€.

My guess is that it's because Finland's education system is state-run, meaning salaries are standardized and taxed heavily. They in reality earn a lot more but taxation takes a chunk of their money.

Somalia’s higher salaries for professors come from private universities competing for talent, not government pay. I might be the same with Uganda i haven't looked to deeply into it. They don't get taxed and they have to pay out of pocket for services that are public or free in Finland (if the private universities/schools don't provide it for them). If you judge by pure salary terms it is similar or above , but in adjusted purchasing power, Finland still offers a more stable, structured academic career.

Private universities dominate in Somalia . Unlike Ethiopia, where universities are state-funded, Somalia's education sector is privately run. Private institutions often pay competitive salaries to attract qualified professionals.

It also Diaspora-driven education sector . Many Somali universities were established by the diaspora, who bring in international funding and higher salary standards.

Cost of living differences , While Somalia has a growing economy, Ethiopia’s inflation is destroying purchasing power, making salaries there worth even less.

Djibouti is similar i can tell from the joblistings online

The salary for physics teacher in a local private school. It is 2500 USD a month.

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All of them seem to offer a salary up 2500 USD.

Permanent Teaching Jobs in Djibouti

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[Idilinaa]

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I just noticed it said "Their chief object is to aggrandize themselves" explaining how Ethiopian political leaders behaved over 500 years ago.

This is exactly what i said before you drooped it:

When your own state leader engages in plagiarism and accepts fake doctorate degrees to boost his legitimacy in the eyes of the public it exposes something very problematic. A deep rooted culture of deception and self-delusion in Ethiopia's ruling class.

The importance put on projecting a positive image, obsession with external reputation management and self aggrandizement that evades substantive actions, work to improve or solve problems. Instead of solving real economic, educational, and governance problems, they focus on manufacturing a fake image to impress outsiders.

He calls it "Monstrous kind of Monarchy, and to this are owing continual wars and rebellions, " and describes it as quite lawless and that the kings and his circle control the lives and property and prevent them from progress.

It kinda is similar to the Eqyptian visitor described Ethiopia in early 1900s.

I explained to @Zak12 what was keeping Ethiopia back

The problem with Ethiopia, they are stuck in the past. Every other country and region on earth Japan, Europe, China etc moved away from their feudal structure and challenged it outright, they are no longer warring neighbors trying to dominate one another and oppress their citizens as peasants beneath them. They fully understood that it is more beneficial to work with one another and respect each others territorial integrity and focus on trade and industrial development.

For 1000 years Ethiopia has kept up the same policy and direction, and all it's led to is political turmoil and regional instability.

It's also why it's economically destitute country as well. It's not simply because they are landlocked. Even today, successful landlocked nations like Switzerland and Luxembourg prove that geographic constraints can be overcome.

Ethiopia’s lack of economic progress is more linked to internal policies, feudal structures, and poor diplomatic relations with neighbors than its landlocked status.

West/Europeans are partly complicit in enabling and supporting this, their constant propping up of them prevents them from forming self-examination and re-structuring and allying them against Somalis

 

[RiceMuncher]

Power outage for a fifth day in whole of eastern Etio

Power outage leaves Jigjiga and eastern Ethiopia

 

[novanova]

Power outage for a fifth day in whole of eastern Etio

Power outage leaves Jigjiga and eastern Ethiopia

The outage, which has affected Jigjiga, Harar, Dirirdhabe, Fiiq, and Dhagaxbuur, began after seven key transmission towers collapsed near the town of Awash. Local authorities say the towers—critical to transporting power from Ethiopia’s central and western regions—had been severely weakened by repeated metal theft before heavy rains and wind caused their collapse.

Gaajo ass country

 

[Burqad]

Power outage for a fifth day in whole of eastern Etio

Power outage leaves Jigjiga and eastern Ethiopia

You mean western Somali