Eritrea: solving for domestic reform, while negotiating investor, development cooperation

Summary While it continues to negotiate investor and development cooperation, the Eritrean government is working within available means and is implementing agroindustrial programming that helps to both solve for considerable underemployment in the country and to transition those hitherto obligated under national service requirements to meaningful alternative job opportunities. Analysis The state of peace that was reached between the Eritrean and Ethiopian governments in early July has led to calls for domestic political, economic and security reforms in Eritrea similar to those seen in Ethiopia. In Addis Ababa, the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has initiated a wide-spread restructuring …

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