Can Ethiopia be brought back from the brink?

Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 7:50 a.m.

The country is embroiled in an internal war which has taken a huge humanitarian toll with thousands killed and millions displaced.\xa0But that's not the only damage being done to Africa's second most populous nation. The war has incurred a huge\xa0economic\xa0cost too. As the US threatens further sanctions, Vivienne Nunis asks if Ethiopia can be brought back from the brink. She speaks to Yemane Nagish from the BBC\u2019s Tigrinya service in Nairobi, Will Davison, aformer correspondent based in the country and now\xa0an Ethiopia analyst at the International Crisis Group, Irmgard Erasmus Irmgard, the senior financial economist at Oxford Economics Africa in Cape Town and Faisal Roble,\xa0a US-based analyst who specialises in the Horn of Africa.\n(Picture credit: AFP)