The World Bank Gave Abiy Ahmed’s War A Lifeline – The World Bank Has Blood On Its Hands

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Why has the World Bank Undercut Peace in Ethiopia?

👉 Courtesy: THE EMBASSY

By Michael Rubin

The World Bank has blood on its hands. Its lending has undercut nearly a year of international efforts to stop Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s genocide against Ethiopia’s Tigrayans.

Abiy Plays the International Community

Celebrations of Abiy, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, were short lived. His reputation as a peacemaker ended on Nov. 4, 2020, when Abiy launched a war against Ethiopia’s Tigray Region that to date has killed up to half a million people, and has displaced many times more.

Abiy and his supporters made four arguments to justify their campaign. The first was Tigrayan leadership’s defiance of his suspension of elections. This embarrassed Abiy. Second, Abiy claimed that the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) violated human rights while part of the previous regime. Third, Abiy characterized the campaign as necessary to correct the dysfunction inherent in Ethiopia’s ethnic federalism. Finally, the TPLF purportedly started hostilities, pre-emptively attacking the Ethiopian military.

None of these excuses has merit. Abiy sought a military shortcut to avoid politically difficult legal and constitutional remedies – he planned for war all along. Nor does anything excuse Abiy’s collective punishment of Tigrayans. While Abiy denies atrocities, he also denies free access to journalists or diplomats, which is hardly the attitude of a man with truth on his side.

Abiy, meanwhile, plays the international community. He feigns moderation. He invites camera crews to film World Food Programme aid convoys, suggesting that he cooperates with famine-relief efforts. In reality, the food and medicine he lets through accounts for less than 3% of what Tigray needs. He essentially repeats the deception strategy used by Nazi Germany at Theresienstadt in order to co-opt and confuse the Red Cross and the broader international community. Abiy’s advisors also publicly offer to take part in peace talks, all the while doing everything in their power to undermine that prospect by failing to abide by their commitments to reduce hostilities.

To its credit, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has recognized Abiy’s insincerity for what it is. Biden has appointed a succession of special envoys to address a conflict every bit as brutal and illegal as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He has ratcheted up sanctions on those responsible, and he removed Ethiopia from the free trade opportunities offered by the African Growth and Opportunity Act. This was a wise decision. Abiy has run Ethiopia’s economy into the ground. There is no reason for the United States to save Abiy from the consequences of his own actions so long as he consolidates his dictatorship and continues his genocidal campaign.

It takes two sides to make peace. In December 2021, at the request of the international community, Tigrayan forces withdrew from neighboring regions and the outskirts of Addis Ababa in order to create space for dialogue and diplomacy. They suffered tremendously for it – Abiy took their flexibility for weakness and sought to impose a military solution on Tigray. Only as Ethiopia’s economy continued to unravel did Abiy agree to talks in Nairobi.

Aid Dispatched Unwisely

Still, Abiy kept testing international resolve, and earlier this month, the World Bank gave him an out. It approved a $300 million grant to help Ethiopia rebuild, even as Abiy continued his war of attrition.

The results were predictable. Offered a financial lifeline, Abiy ceased meaningful talks and renewed strikes on civilians. Last week, Abiy airstrikes destroyed a kindergarten in Mekelle, Tigray’s capital.

Tens of thousands of Tigrayans starved as the international community cajoled Abiy into Nairobi talks. The World Bank’s actions now mean their lives were wasted.

Tigray, however, may get the last laugh. After Abiy, emboldened by the World Bank, renewed attacks, Tigrayans decided to meet fire with fire. They are again on the offensive. Forces loyal to Abiy are in disarray, just as they were in 2021.

The World Bank, meanwhile, can pretend its $300 million will rebuild the country, but aid dispatched unwisely does more harm than good. In the case of Ethiopia, the cost of World Bank incompetence could be measured in hundreds of thousands of more lives, millions more displaced, and refugee flows that will wreck stability across the Horn of Africa. The World Bank owes the international community an explanation, and perhaps even resignations.

👹 The Depopulation Agenda. There is a sub-district in the capital, Addis Ababa, named after THE WORLD BANK (የዓለም ባንክ). This sub-district is predominantly inhabited by Muslim traders.

💭 THE WORLD BANK, POPULATION CONTROL AND THE AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT

👉 የዓለም ባንክ፣ የሕዝብ ብዛት እና የአፍሪካ አካባቢ

“ተከታታይ የዓለም ባንክ ሪፖርቶች የአፍሪካ አገራት የህዝብ ብዛት፣ የግብርና ምርት እና አካባቢያዊ መበላሸት ከችግሮቿ መካከል ዋና ዋናዎቹ እንደሆኑ አድርገው ይገልጻሉ። መልእክቱ፤ ሰዎች ከበዙ፤ አነስተኛ መሬት፣ ዝቅተኛ ምርታማነት፣ አነስተኛ ምግብ እንደሚከሰት ለማሳየት የሞከሩ ይመስላሉ። እነዚህ ግምቶች የአፍሪካ ስነ–ሕዝብ፣ የአካባቢ ለውጥ እና የምግብ ምርት ብሎም በመካከላቸው ያለውን ግንኙነት ያስተናግዳሉ፣ እነዚህም የዓለም ባንክ ሪፖርቶች ቀለል ያሉ፣ አንድ ወጥ አመክንዮ ያላቸውና ደካሞች መሆናቸውን አመልካቾች ናቸው። እነዚህን ሰነዶች የአፍሪካን ማህበረሰቦች በተቋቋሙት የዓለም ባንክ ፖሊሲዎች አማካኝነት “ልማት ማጎልበት እንደሚያስፈልጋቸው” እና‘የልማት ማህበረሰቡ‘ እንደ አንድ‘የልማት ግምት‘ ቅጽ ተደርጎ ሊወሰድ እንደሚገባ መረዳት እንችላለን።“

Gavin Williams

South African Sociological Review

Vol. 4, No. 2 (APRIL 1992), pp. 2-29 (28 pages)

Successive World Bank reports identify as the major problem facing African countries the nexus among population growth, agricultural production, and environmental degradation. The message: more people; less land; lower productivity; less food, appears self-evident. These assumptions displace any empirical examination of African demography, environmental change and food production, and the relations among them, which would undermine the simplistic and unilinear logic of the World Bank’s reports. These documents can be understood as a form of ‘development discourse’, constructing African societies as in need of ‘development’ through the established policies of the World Bank and in accordance with the assumptions of the ‘development community’.

💭 Genocide of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christians by the Luciferians – 👹 evil Abiy Ahmed recently said: „We are too many, stop having children….world leaders/ our babysitters ordered us to fight against population growth, and against the world’s most ancient Christian communities and their written languages and Ethiopic/ Geʽez (ግዕዝ) script. If we don’t do that there won’t be governance for prosperity„

He literally said that – and he’s still in power! Mind boggling, isn’t it!? So, the fascist Galla-Oromo, Abiy Ahmed Ali is obviously their man in Addis Ababa.

👉 Amazing coincidence! The following is yesterday’s report from the United Nations Population Fund:

💭 Family Planning, A Life-Saving Intervention For Conflict-Affected Communities In Ethiopia

👉 በጣም አስገራሚ መገጣጠም፤ የተባበሩት መንግስታት በትናንትናው ዕለት የሚከተለውን ጽሑፍ አውጥቶታል። የግራኝ አንዱ ሞግዚት ‘ተመድ‘ም፤ “በልታችሁ በሰላም ለመኖር ልጅ አትውለዱ!” እያለን ነው። ዋው!

💭“የቤተሰብ እቅድ፤ በኢትዮጵያ ግጭት ለተጎዱ ህብረተሰብዎች ሕይወት–አዳኝ ጣልቃ–ገብነት“

DEBARK, Amhara region – “In this difficult situation, family planning will help me take care of my own health and safety and better care for my baby and family” says Nigiste, 21, a mother of a three-month-old son. After the conflict expanded from Tigray to her region in Amhara, she fled with her newborn son and now lives in Kulch-Meda, an internally displaced persons camp at the outskirts of Debark town. She receives family planning counseling at Marie Stopes International (MSI), a mobile clinic supported by UNFPA.

The conflict in northern Ethiopia has displaced thousands of people and more than 9.4 million are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

“I am alone and I barely have enough to cover my basic needs,” said Nigiste, who relies entirely on humanitarian aid for survival. “After I found out the benefits of spacing pregnancies, I decided to use family planning,” she explained.

Across northern Ethiopia, health systems are cracking under ever-increasing needs. Damage and destruction of health facilities and shortage of supplies and providers are severely disrupting the delivery of sexual and reproductive health services to people in need.

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