Ethiopia 's prime minister loves big projects. With a mega-dam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed now plans Africa's largest airport and a nuclear power plant. But the threat of war is back as the landlocked nation seeks its most audacious feat yet: access to the sea.
The prime minister hailed the country's transformation in a parliamentary address in late October. The capital, Addis Ababa, has seen a development boom. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was inaugurated in July. Abiy has called it a “harbinger of tomorrow’s dawn” that will end the reliance on foreign aid for Africa's second most populous nation. The country has been one of the world's biggest aid recipients.
