On Ethiopian embassies By Teklu Abate May 1, 2013 The website of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains that Ethiopia has 39 missions (embassies and consular offices) in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. These missions officially represent Ethiopia and poise to serve the Ethiopian Diaspora and Ethiopian-origin nationals. They also intend to encourage and facilitate the transfer of capital, technology, and science to Ethiopia. Since recent times, missions seem to aggressively work on 1) winning the hearts and minds of foreign investors particularly from the Arab world, India, and China, and 2) collecting funds for the construction of the “Grand Renaissance Dam”. To what extent Ethiopian missions accomplish their missions? This is not for sure easy
In this paper, I highlight some of the weaknesses and limitations of Ethiopian missions, On Modern Slavery
Due to a whole set of socio-economic and political complications at home, Ethiopians
Several Ethiopian activists and some international organizations have started exposing
Rather, there are several missions that sort of facilitate the immigration of Ethiopian On the Ethiopian Diaspora
As the websites of nearly all Ethiopian missions maintain, they have that responsibility
This happened in South Africa, Europe, and North America. The latest and perhaps the On National Image
Our missions, along with other duties, are supposed to create and maintain a good On Knowledge Transfer
Ethiopia is one of the few African countries that is most affected by brain drain. Best
One could argue that the educated Diaspora do not support the regime back home. My Final Notes
Ethiopian missions could, in addition to their consular/visa-related services, embark on
This is possible if and only if they start to be dictated by logic, reason, evidence and The writer could be reached at [email protected] and also blogs at
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