Ethiopian Airlines said that although Ebola had not been declared an epidemic and no travel ban had been issued, it was taking a leadin taking extraordinary precautions in connection with the outbreak of the disease in some parts of West Africa.
Andrew DeCort
The moral of The Edge of Tomorrow’s story could be reduced to the old maxim, “If ever you don’t succeed, try, try again.” For a good cause, this is certainly worthwhile wisdom. But when confronted with a thoughtless or destructive pattern, this advice can reflect madness or a drive for death. In the case of Tom Cruise’s latest action flick, one worries that all of us should emphatically not “try, try again” but give up on its narrative
Merkeb Negash, Special to Addis Standard
All previous articles on Ethiopian developmental statism on this magazine started with what the Ethiopian developmental state fails to be. It is argued that the Ethiopian state is nothing like the highly sophisticated state apparatus of the East Asian states and that it is – as a result- corrupt, soft and prone to capture. This pessimist diagnosis of the Ethiopian state is followed by highly ambitious, if not naïve, prescriptions that are neither necessary nor achievable at this level of socio-economic development.
